Wang Mo, Chen Yiwei
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2004 Sep;19(3):536-40. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.19.3.536.
Previous research has demonstrated that older adults are more susceptible than young adults to context-induced biases in social judgments. The primary goal of this study was to examine the conditions under which older adults could or could not correct their biases. Young and older adults completed a social judgment task that normally would produce contrast biases in 3 correction cue conditions: no cue, subtle cue, and blatant cue. It was found that both young and older adults corrected their biases in the blatant cue condition, but only young adults corrected in the subtle cue condition. The results suggest that older adults may need more environmental support in correcting their biases.
先前的研究表明，与年轻人相比，老年人在社会判断中更容易受到情境诱导的偏差影响。本研究的主要目的是考察老年人在何种情况下能够或无法纠正他们的偏差。年轻人和老年人完成了一项社会判断任务，该任务在三种纠正线索条件下通常会产生对比偏差：无线索、微妙线索和明显线索。结果发现，年轻人和老年人在明显线索条件下都纠正了他们的偏差，但只有年轻人在微妙线索条件下进行了纠正。研究结果表明，老年人在纠正偏差时可能需要更多的环境支持。
