Improving Memory in Old Age Through Implicit Self-Stereotyping

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1092-1107

  Levy, Becca ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PHOTOGRAPHY; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030341964     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.6.1092     Document Type: Article

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