Susceptibility and Resilience to Memory Aging Stereotypes: Education Matters More than Age

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-148

  Andreoletti, Carrie ^a   Lachman, Margie E ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; STEREOTYPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 1542406048     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730490274167     Document Type: Article

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