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How Stereotype Threat Affects Healthy Older Adults’ Performance on Clinical Assessments of Cognitive Decline: The Key Role of Regulatory Fit

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  • Sarah J. Barber
  • Mara Mather
  • Margaret Gatz

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Objectives. Stereotype threat can impair older adults’ performance on clinical assessments for cognitive decline. We examined why this occurs. Based upon the regulatory focus account of stereotype threat, we predicted that the effects of stereotype threat should depend upon the assessments’ reward structure. Stereotype threat should be associated with poor performance when the assessment emphasizes gaining correct answers, but not when it emphasizes avoiding mistakes.

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  • Sarah J. Barber & Mara Mather & Margaret Gatz, 2015. "How Stereotype Threat Affects Healthy Older Adults’ Performance on Clinical Assessments of Cognitive Decline: The Key Role of Regulatory Fit," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 70(6), pages 891-900.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:70:y:2015:i:6:p:891-900.
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    1. Honghao Zhang & Huiyuan Jia & Xin Zhang, 2022. "Dance to Prosper: Benefits of Chinese Square Dance in QOL and the Moderating Roles of Aging Stereotypes," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(24), pages 1-17, December.
    2. Beatrice G. Kuhlmann & Anna E. Kornadt & Ute J. Bayen & Katharina Meuser & Liliane Wulff, 2017. "Multidimensionality of Younger and Older Adults’ Age Stereotypes: The Interaction of Life Domain and Adjective Dimension," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 72(3), pages 436-440.

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