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The Moderating Role of Education on the Relationship Between Perceived Stereotype Threat and False Memory in Aging

Studies regularly show that an age-based stereotype threat impairs older adults’ performance on memory tasks. Results regarding stereotype threat effects on false memories are less clear. Some studies suggest that education may moderate the relationship between an age-related stereotype threat and e...

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Autores principales: Gilet, Anne-Laure, Evrard, Christelle, Galharret, Jean-Michel, Colombel, Fabienne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33519612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606249
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author Gilet, Anne-Laure
Evrard, Christelle
Galharret, Jean-Michel
Colombel, Fabienne
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Galharret, Jean-Michel
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description Studies regularly show that an age-based stereotype threat impairs older adults’ performance on memory tasks. Results regarding stereotype threat effects on false memories are less clear. Some studies suggest that education may moderate the relationship between an age-related stereotype threat and episodic memory performance in older adults. The present study aimed at examining the moderating role of education on the relationship between perceived stereotype threat (PST) and false memories in older adults. With this aim, 82 adults between 60 and 70 years of age performed a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task followed by a free recall test and completed questionnaires assessing both their perception of an age-based stereotype threat and their education level. Regression analyses showed no effect of PST on the production of critical lures. However, as was expected, our results showed that in higher educated older adults, as the perception of stereotype increases, the production of critical lures increases. These results confirm the moderating role of education and highlight its key role in the relationship between the age-based stereotype threat and older adults’ susceptibility to false memories.
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spelling pubmed-78454522021-01-30 The Moderating Role of Education on the Relationship Between Perceived Stereotype Threat and False Memory in Aging Gilet, Anne-Laure Evrard, Christelle Galharret, Jean-Michel Colombel, Fabienne Front Psychol Psychology Studies regularly show that an age-based stereotype threat impairs older adults’ performance on memory tasks. Results regarding stereotype threat effects on false memories are less clear. Some studies suggest that education may moderate the relationship between an age-related stereotype threat and episodic memory performance in older adults. The present study aimed at examining the moderating role of education on the relationship between perceived stereotype threat (PST) and false memories in older adults. With this aim, 82 adults between 60 and 70 years of age performed a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) task followed by a free recall test and completed questionnaires assessing both their perception of an age-based stereotype threat and their education level. Regression analyses showed no effect of PST on the production of critical lures. However, as was expected, our results showed that in higher educated older adults, as the perception of stereotype increases, the production of critical lures increases. These results confirm the moderating role of education and highlight its key role in the relationship between the age-based stereotype threat and older adults’ susceptibility to false memories. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7845452/ /pubmed/33519612 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606249 Text en Copyright © 2021 Gilet, Evrard, Galharret and Colombel. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title The Moderating Role of Education on the Relationship Between Perceived Stereotype Threat and False Memory in Aging
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title_short The Moderating Role of Education on the Relationship Between Perceived Stereotype Threat and False Memory in Aging
title_sort moderating role of education on the relationship between perceived stereotype threat and false memory in aging
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7845452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33519612
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606249
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