Category norms as a function of culture and age: comparisons of item responses to 105 categories by american and chinese adults.
Understanding how aging influences cognition across different cultures has been hindered by a lack of standardized, cross-referenced verbal stimuli. This study introduces a database of such item-level stimuli for both younger and older adults, in China and the United States, and makes 3 distinct contributions. First, the authors specify which item categories generalize across age and/or cultural groups, rigorously quantifying differences among them. Second, they introduce novel, powerful methods to measure between-group differences in freely generated ranked data, the rank-ordered logit model and Hellinger Affinity. Finally, a broad archive of tested, cross-linguistic stimuli is now freely available to researchers: data, similarity measures, and all stimulus materials for 105 categories and 4 culture-by-age groups, comprising over 10,000 fully translated unique item responses.
Yoon
Carolyn
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University of Michigan Business School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1234, USA. yoonc@umich.edu
Feinberg
Fred
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Hu
Ping
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Gutchess
Angela Hall
AH
Hedden
Trey
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Chen
Hiu-Ying Mary
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Jing
Qicheng
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Cui
Yao
Y
Park
Denise C
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards; D012015:Reference Standards; D012660:Semantics; D014175:Translating; D014481:United States; D014825:Vocabulary; D014956:Writing