Recent work suggests that most older adults who volunteer to take part in cognitive
experiments are more motivated to do well than are undergraduate students. This empirical …

The threat of being judged stereotypically (stereotype threat) may impair memory
performance in older adults, thereby producing inflated age differences in memory tasks …

Test conditions eliciting negative stereotypes of aging among older adults can prompt age-
based stereotype threat (ABST), which results in worse performance on cognitive and …

Objectives. The goals of the present study were to (a) examine whether age differences exist
in the mechanisms underlying stereotype threat effects on cognitive performance and (b) …

Perceptions of aging (PoA) can negatively impact older adults in domains such as cognition,
mobility and health. The stereotype embodiment model outlines how perceptions of aging …

Objectives. 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 …

In 3 experiments, we investigated how age-related differences in cognitive performance are
exacerbated by age-based stereotype threat. We adopted a strategy approach and …

Background: Age-based cognitive deficits are exacerbated by stereotype threat effects (ie,
the threat of being judged as cognitively incapable due to aging). We tested whether age …

Older adults (OAs) report less overall mind-wandering than younger adults (YAs) but more
task-related interference (TRI; mind-wandering about the task). The current study examined …

Objectives The current study examined the effects of stereotype threat on prospective
memory (PM) performance in younger versus older adults by using a focal (ie, low cognitive …