Age and experience influences on the complexity of social inferences

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 447-459

  Hess, Thomas M ^a   Osowski, Nicole L ^a   Leclerc, Christina M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Expertise; Social cognition; Social inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY; RATING SCALE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27644558651     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.3.447     Document Type: Article

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