Stereotype Threat Alters the Subjective Experience of Memory
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Running head: STEREOTYPE THREAT REDUCES MEMORY ERRORS Stereotype threat can reduce older adults’ memory errors
144 words) Stereotype threat often incurs the cost of reducing the amount of information that older adults accurately recall. In the current research we tested whether stereotype threat can also benefit memory. According to the regulatory focus account of stereotype threat, threat induces a prevention focus in which people become concerned with avoiding errors of commission and are sensitive to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Experimental Psychology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1618-3169,2190-5142
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000303