Resolving conflicting social categories: The role of age-related executive ability.
We investigated the effect of age-related decline in executive ability on the application of emergent features to incongruent social category conjunctions (e.g., male midwife). When forming an impression of an incongruent conjunction, older adults used more emergent attributes (attributes associated...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 103; no. 1; pp. 28 - 45 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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