Thomas Hess

TL;DR: This paper found that older adults were less likely than younger adults to integrate new, inconsistent information in the schema-based memory representation, which would result in less impression change, while young and older adults varied in their weighting of different types of information (e.g., negative behaviors), which subsequently affected their impressions and memory for specific behavioral information.

TL;DR: The results illustrate the contextual sensitivity of subjective age and highlight the role played by an individual’s views of old age—both in general and regarding oneself—in determining their own experience of aging.

TL;DR: The results provide further support for the hypothesis that increased costs associated with cognitive engagement influence older adults' willingness to engage cognitive resources, and that these costs in part reflect subjective perceptions that are independent of objective task demands.

TL;DR: Older adults' context effects in Experiment 1 were due to automatic activation of nonspecific word meaning features due to the relation between target and context, and when no such familiar context existed, the older adults were less likely to use context information.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is proposed that aging has a multifaceted effect on social cognition, which is manifested in terms of constraints on social information processing associated with declining cognitive resources, specific adaptations to such constraints, and the development of powerful interpretive structures.