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Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 53, Issue 3 P175-P187, Copyright © 1998 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Aging and impression formation: the impact of processing skills and goals

TM Hess, KJ Follett and KA McGee
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7801, USA. hess@poe.coe.ncsu.edu

Two studies assessed age differences in representations and judgments about people. Our specific interest was in examining how presumed age- related changes in processing efficiency and motivation affected performance in an impression formation task. Consistent with age- related declines in processing efficiency, we found that increasing age was associated with: (a) no change in the processing of evaluative information; (b) less use of specific traits to organize impressions; (c) poorer memory for behavioral information, especially when it contradicted expectations; and (d) less systematic relationships between memory and judgments. We also found, however, that more meaningful task goals and a focus on individual behaviors resulted in reduced age differences in the nature of representations about the target person.


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