Age differences in the correction processes of context-induced biases: When correction succeeds

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 536-540

  Wang, Mo ^a   Chen, Yiwei ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; TRAVEL;

EID: 4344594450     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.536     Document Type: Article

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