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Chapter Six - Social Cognition and Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2025

Angela Gutchess
Angela Gutchess
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Brandeis University, Massachusetts
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This chapter reviews research on social cognition and age. This covers self-focused processes, including self-referencing and memory as well as own-age bias and stereotype threat and stigma. Processes focused on other people are also reviewed, including moral judgment, empathy, theory of mind, social interactions and impression formation, memory for impressions, and trust.

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social cognitionselfotherssocial memoryempathytheory of mindimpression formationtrust
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Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging , pp. 159 - 186
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Cassidy, B. S., Leshikar, E. D., Shih, J. Y., Aizenman, A., & Gutchess, A. H. (2013). Valence-based age differences in medial prefrontal activity during impression formation. Social Neuroscience, 8(5), 462–473. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2013.832373.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gutchess, A. H., Kensinger, E. A., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Aging, self-referencing, and medial prefrontal cortex. Social Neuroscience, 2(2), 117–133.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hughes, C., Cassidy, B. S., Faskowitz, J., Avena-Koenigsberger, A., Sporns, O., & Krendl, A. C. (2019). Age differences in specific neural connections within the Default Mode Network underlie theory of mind. NeuroImage, 191, 269–277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.02.024.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moran, J. M., Jolly, E., & Mitchell, J. P. (2012). Social-cognitive deficits in normal aging. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(16), 5553–5561.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Xie, Y., Ksander, J., Gutchess, A., Hadjikhani, N., Ward, N., Boshyan, J., & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2021). Age differences in neural activation to face trustworthiness: Voxel pattern and activation level assessments. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 278–291. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00868-y.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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  • Social Cognition and Aging
  • Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
  • Online publication: 14 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354233.007
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  • Social Cognition and Aging
  • Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
  • Online publication: 14 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354233.007
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  • Social Cognition and Aging
  • Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
  • Book: Cognitive and Social Neuroscience of Aging
  • Online publication: 14 February 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354233.007
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