Threat or Boost? Social Comparison Affects Older People's Performance Differently Depending on Task Domain | Zendy

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Threat or Boost? Social Comparison Affects Older People's Performance Differently Depending on Task Domain

Author(s) -

Helen Swift,

Dominic Abrams,

Sibila Marques

Publication year - 2012

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/gbs044

Subject(s) - psychology , task (project management) , stereotype threat , affect (linguistics) , disadvantaged , older people , developmental psychology , anxiety , control (management) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , gerontology , computer science , medicine , management , communication , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , political science , law , economics

In this research, we investigate whether social comparison with younger people can result in either a stereotype-based threat or boost in older people's performance.

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