Reasoning about social conflicts improves into old age

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7246-7250

  Grossmann, Igor ^a   Na, Jinkyung ^a   Varnum, Michael E W ^a   Park, Denise C ^b   Kitayama, Shinobu ^a   Nisbett, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Intelligence; Problem solving; Reasoning; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPETENCE; CONFLICT; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; THINKING;

EID: 77952117234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001715107     Document Type: Article

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