Stereotype Threat Alters the Subjective Experience of Memory.
There is now evidence that negative age-related stereotypes about memory reduce older adults' memory performance, and inflate age differences in this domain. Here, we examine whether stereotype threat may also influence the basic feeling that one is more or less able to remember. Using the Remember/Know paradigm, we demonstrated that stereotype threat conducted older adults to a greater feeling of familiarity with events, while failing to retrieve any contextual detail. This finding indicates that stereotype threat alters older adults' subjective experience of memory, and strengthens our understanding of the mechanisms underlying stereotype threat effects.
1 University of Poitiers and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Poitiers, France.
Marie
M
Mazerolle
2 Aix-Marseille University and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Marseille, France.
Isabelle
I
Régner
1 University of Poitiers and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Poitiers, France.
François
F
Rigalleau
2 Aix-Marseille University and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Marseille, France.
Pascal
P
Huguet
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013240:Stereotyping
Recollection and Familiarity; aging; memory; stereotype threat; subjective experience of memory