Discounting input from older adults: the role of age salience on partner age effects in the social contagion of memory.
Memory
; 25(5): 704-716, 2017 05.
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ABSTRACT
Three experiments examined the impact of partner age on the magnitude of socially suggested false memories. Young participants recalled household scenes in collaboration with an implied young or older adult partner who intentionally recalled false items. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with only the age of their partner (low age-salience context); in Experiment 2, participants were presented with the age of their partner along with a photograph and biographical information about their partner (high age-salience context); in Experiment 3, age salience was varied within the same experiment. Across experiments, participants in both the low age-salience and high age-salience contexts incorporated their partners' misleading suggestions into their own subsequent recall and recognition reports, thus demonstrating social contagion with implied partners. Importantly, the effect of partner age differed across conditions. Participants in the high age-salience context were less likely to incorporate misleading suggestions from older adult partners than from young adult partners, but participants in the low age-salience context were equally likely to incorporate suggestions from young and older adult partners. Participants discount the memory of older adult partners only when age is highly salient.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Conducta Social
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Sugestión
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Memoria
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Memory
Asunto de la revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos