Open AccessMemory Shaped by Age Stereotypes over Time
Author(s) -
Becca Levy,
Alan B. Zonderman,
Martin D. Slade,
Luigi Ferrucci
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbr120
Subject(s) - psychology , stereotype (uml) , cognitive aging , cognition , stereotype threat , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , longitudinal study , social psychology , medicine , pathology , communication , neuroscience
Previous studies showed that negative self-stereotypes detrimentally affect the cognitive performance of marginalized group members; however, these findings were confined to short-term experiments. In the present study, we considered whether stereotypes predicted memory over time, which had not been previously examined. We also considered whether self-relevance increased the influence of stereotypes on memory over time.
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