Age Differences in Processing Strategies: The Role of Emotion in Trade-off Decisions - Couverture souple

Ma, Xiaodong; Chen, Yiwei

 
9783845444505: Age Differences in Processing Strategies: The Role of Emotion in Trade-off Decisions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3845444509 ISBN 13 : 9783845444505
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Decision making abilities are essential in our everyday life. As we get older, we are frequently asked to make decisions about retirement, medical care, and housing. Considering certain cognitive capacities changes in older adulthood, it is important to investigate how older adults make various decisions. The present study explored age differences in emotionally difficult trade-off decisions and the underlying mechanism of the age-related effects. Results showed that older adults were more likely to use attribute-based processing strategies compared with younger adults in the high trade-off difficulty condition for both car and physician tasks. On the other hand, younger adults were more likely to use alternative-based processing strategies compared with older adults in the high trade-off difficulty condition. In the car decision task, the retrospective negative emotion instead of cognitive ability mediated the age-related effects in processing strategies in the high trade-off difficulty condition.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Decision making abilities are essential in our everyday life. As we get older, we are frequently asked to make decisions about retirement, medical care, and housing. Considering certain cognitive capacities changes in older adulthood, it is important to investigate how older adults make various decisions. The present study explored age differences in emotionally difficult trade-off decisions and the underlying mechanism of the age-related effects. Results showed that older adults were more likely to use attribute-based processing strategies compared with younger adults in the high trade-off difficulty condition for both car and physician tasks. On the other hand, younger adults were more likely to use alternative-based processing strategies compared with older adults in the high trade-off difficulty condition. In the car decision task, the retrospective negative emotion instead of cognitive ability mediated the age-related effects in processing strategies in the high trade-off difficulty condition.

Biographie de l'auteur

Xiaodong Ma, Ph.D.received her doctorate in Psychology from Bowling Green State University and is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Yiwei Chen, Ph.D. received her doctorate from Georgia Institute of Technology is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3845444509
ISBN 13 
9783845444505
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
64
Coordonnées du fabricant
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