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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022

They Cannot, They Will Not, or We Are Asking the Wrong Questions: Re-examining Age-Related Decline in Social Cognition.

Lucas J Hamilton, Amy N Gourley, Anne C Krendl

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Age Differences in Mental State Inference of Sarcasm: Contributions of Facial Emotion Recognition and Cognitive Performance.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024
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  8. Evidence for the role of affective theory of mind in face-name associative memory.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2024
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  9. Adult Age Differences in Evoked Emotional Responses to Dynamic Facial Expressions.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024
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  10. Determining Whether Older Adults Use Similar Strategies to Young Adults in Theory of Mind Tasks.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023
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  11. Facial Trustworthiness Perception Across the Adult Life Span.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lucas J HamiltonDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States.
Amy N GourleyDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States.
Anne C KrendlDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States.

Funding

Understanding how social connectedness protects older adults' cognitive health: the role of social cognitionR01AG070931 · NIA · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI KRENDL, ANNE CATHERINE, PERRY, BREA LOUISE · 2020 to 2024
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NIA NIH HHS R01 AG070931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social cognition is critical for successfully navigating social relationships. Current evidence suggests that older adults exhibit poorer performance in several core social-cognitive domains compared to younger adults. Neurocognitive decline is commonly discussed as one of the key arbiters of age-related decline in social-cognitive abilities. While evidence supports this notion, age effects are likely attributable to multiple factors. This paper aims to recontextualize past evidence by focusing issues of motivation, task design, and representative samples. In light of these issues, we identify directions for future research to aide our understanding of social-cognitive aging.

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ecological validitymotivationrepresentative samplesresearch designsocial cognition and aging

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PMID35645861
PMCPMC9131941

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