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Thomas Hess
Researcher at North Carolina State University
Publications - 603
Citations - 19330
Thomas Hess is an academic researcher from North Carolina State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Digital transformation. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 575 publications receiving 16298 citations. Previous affiliations of Thomas Hess include Georgia Institute of Technology & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Ageing-related influences on personal need for structure
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the need for structure construct in relation to adult age using the Personal Need for Structure scale (PNS), and found that ageing was associated with lower levels of physical health and cognitive skill, which in turn were related to higher PNS scores.
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Longitudinal Relationships Between Resources, Motivation, and Functioning
TL;DR: The results suggest that motivation may play an important role in determining the course of cognitive change and involvement in cognitively demanding everyday activities in adulthood.
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Aging, Cognitive Complexity, and the Fundamental Attribution Error
Katherine J. Follett,Thomas Hess +1 more
TL;DR: Middle-aged adults were less prone to the fundamental attribution error than were young and older adults, evidenced by their reduced tendency to make attitude attributions in the no-choice condition relative to the choice condition.
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Social cognition in adulthood: aging-related changes in knowledge and processing mechanisms
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that age-related changes in knowledge systems possessed by the individual influence the representation of social events in memory and the motivation to engage in specific types of cognitive activities.
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Motivational Influences on Controlled Processing: Moderating Distractibility in Older Adults
Cassandra M. Germain,Thomas Hess +1 more
TL;DR: For older adults, processing was more efficient and comprehension enhanced when passage relevance was high, a finding consistent with a growing body of data highlighting the importance of motivational factors in determining age differences in cognitive performance.