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- Title
Resolving conflicting social categories: The role of age-related executive ability.
- Authors
Hutter, Russell R. C.; Wood, Chantelle; Dodd, Georgina F.
- Abstract
We investigated the effect of age-related decline in executive ability on the application of emergent features to incongruent social category conjunctions (e.g., male midwife). When forming an impression of an incongruent conjunction, older adults used more emergent attributes (attributes associated exclusively with the category conjunction and not the constituents), relative to younger adults. Moreover, this relationship was mediated by a reduction in inhibitory ability (measured using a Stroop task) and processing speed (measured using a Digit Symbol Substitution Test, DSST). These findings are consistent with the notion that executive ability is pivotal in understanding social functioning in older adults. We discuss the implications of these findings for the continuing development of models outlining the processes and stages involved in perceiving social category conjunctions.
- Subjects
AGE distribution; AGING; ANALYSIS of variance; COGNITION; STATISTICAL correlation; INTELLIGENCE tests; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; SCALES (Weighing instruments); SOCIAL psychology; T-test (Statistics); THOUGHT & thinking; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER Adult Intelligence Scale; PILOT projects
- Publication
British Journal of Psychology, 2012, Vol 103, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0007-1269
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02037.x