Trial reportThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2017
Negative Aging Stereotypes Impair Performance on Brief Cognitive Tests Used to Screen for Predementia.
Trial report in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Self-Perceptions of Aging in Older Adults: A Network Analysis of Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Informant-Based Questionnaires in the Diagnostic Pathway for Screening of Cognitive Impairment.Neurology and therapy · 2026Review
- Toward an inclusive future: a systematic review on the implications of ageism for people with dementia.European journal of ageing · 2025Review
- Openness to experience, a personality trait that reduces susceptibility to memory age-based stereotype threat.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- What do we really know about age-related stereotypes and well-being of older adults? A commentary on the state of the art.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Toward a New Approach to Investigate the Role of Working Memory in Stereotype Threat Effects.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- The Challenge of Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Executive Functions in Middle-Aged Adults as a Preclinical Stage of Dementia: A Systematic Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The Impact of Naturalistic Age Stereotype Activation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Investigating cognition in midlife.Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) · 2021Article
- The Applied Implications of Age-Based Stereotype Threat for Older Adults.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2020Article
- The effects of stereotype threat on older adults' walking performance as a function of task difficulty and resource evaluations.Psychology and aging · 2020Article
- Confucian Values as a Buffer Against Age-Based Stereotype Threat for Chinese Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
- Too Old for Computers? The Longitudinal Relationship Between Stereotype Threat and Computer Use by Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Ageing stereotypes and prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AGING): study protocol for an ongoing randomised clinical study.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Stereotype Threat Reduces the Positivity of Older Adults' Recall.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2019Article
- Does social context impact metacognition? Evidence from stereotype threat in a visual search task.PloS one · 2019Article
- Improving Medication Understanding and Adherence Using Principles of Memory and Metacognition: In Press - Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences.Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesThere is today ample evidence that negative aging stereotypes impair healthy older adults' performance on cognitive tasks. Here, we tested whether these stereotypes also decrease performance during the screening for predementia on short cognitive tests widely used in primary care.
methodAn experiment was conducted on 80 healthy older adults taking the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) under Threat or Reduced-threat condition.
resultsStereotype threat significantly impaired older adults' performance on both tests, resulting in 40% of older adults meeting the screening criteria for predementia, compared with 10% in Reduced-threat condition (MMSE and MoCA averaged). DISCUSSION: Our research highlights the influence of aging stereotypes on short cognitive tests used to screen for predementia. It is of critical importance that physicians provide a threat-free testing environment. Further research should clarify whether this socially induced bias may also operate in secondary care by generating false positives.
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