title: Both young and older adults discount suggestions from older adults on a social memory test.
abstract: In the present study, we examined the impacts of participant age and confederate age on social memory processes. During a collaborative recall phase, young and older adult participants were exposed to the erroneous memory reports of a young or an older adult confederate. On a subsequent individual recall test, young and older adult participants were equally likely to incorporate the confederates' erroneous suggestions into their memory reports, suggesting that participant age had a minimal effect on social memory processes. However, confederate age did have a marked effect: Young adult participants were less likely to incorporate misleading suggestions from older adult confederates and less likely to report "remembering" items suggested by older adult confederates. Critically, older adult participants were also less likely to incorporate misleading information from fellow older adult confederates. Both young and older adult participants discounted older adult confederates' contributions to a memory test.
authors: Department of Psychology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA.
authors: Sara D
authors: SD
authors: Davis
authors: Michelle L
authors: ML
authors: Meade
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D012919:Social Behavior; D055815:Young Adult
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