Social relevance enhances memory for impressions in older adults.

Memory
Brittany S Cassidy, Angela H Gutchess

Abstract

Previous research has demonstrated that older adults have difficulty retrieving contextual material over items alone. Recent research suggests this deficit can be reduced by adding emotional context, allowing for the possibility that memory for social impressions may show less age-related decline than memory for other types of contextual information. Two studies investigated how orienting to social or self-relevant aspects of information contributed to the learning and retrieval of impressions in young and older adults. Participants encoded impressions of others in conditions varying in the use of self-reference (Experiment 1) and interpersonal meaningfulness (Experiment 2), and completed memory tasks requiring the retrieval of specific traits. For both experiments, age groups remembered similar numbers of impressions. In Experiment 1 using more self-relevant encoding contexts increased memory for impressions over orienting to stimuli in a non-social way, regardless of age. In Experiment 2 older adults had enhanced memory for impressions presented in an interpersonally meaningful relative to a personally irrelevant way, whereas young adults were unaffected by this manipulation. The results provide evidence that increasing socia...Continue Reading

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Mar 24, 2012·Social Neuroscience·Brittany S CassidyAngela H Gutchess
Jul 19, 2012·Memory & Cognition·Brittany S CassidyAngela H Gutchess
Nov 13, 2015·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Eric D LeshikarAngela H Gutchess
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Sep 3, 2014·Memory·Brittany S Cassidy, Angela H Gutchess
Oct 12, 2013·The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences·Janelle N BeadleAngela H Gutchess
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