Explicit and implicit stereotype activation effects on memory: Do age and awareness moderate the impact of priming?

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 495-505

  Hess, Thomas M ^a   Hinson, Joey T ^a   Statham, Jill A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STEREOTYPY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; APTITUDE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STEREOTYPING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 4344714191     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.495     Document Type: Article

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