Memory performance of late middle-aged adults: Contrasting self-stereotyping and stereotype threat accounts of assimilation to age stereotypes

Social Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 338-358

  O'Brien, Laurie T ^a,c   Hummert, Mary Lee ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

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EID: 33745222825     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: 0278016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2006.24.3.338     Document Type: Review

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