Moderators of and mechanisms underlying stereotype threat effects on older adults' memory performance

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 153-177

  Hess, Thomas M ^a   Hinson, Joey T ^a   Hodges, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; STEREOTYPY; THREAT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 67651163863     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730802716413     Document Type: Article

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