ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Aging is associated with maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decision-making.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Cortical thickness in perirhinal area BA35 predicts adaptive episodic memory-guided decision making in older adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Multilevel risk factors for financial fraud in later life: evidence from China.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- The influence of social cues in learning and decision-making over time.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Linking Individual Variability of Multi-modal Connectivity, Lifestyle, Psycho-Social Factors and Cognition in Older Adults.Aging and disease · 2025Article
- Age-related differences in trust decisions: when memory fails and appearances prevail.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Continued influence of false accusations in forming impressions of political candidates.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Mice integrate conspecific and contextual information in forming social episodic-like memories under spontaneous recognition task conditions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Memory precision and age differentially predict the use of decision-making strategies across the lifespan.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A framework of biomarkers for brain aging: a consensus statement by the Aging Biomarker Consortium.Life medicine · 2023Article
- Aging is associated with maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decision-making.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Older adults are frequent targets and victims of financial fraud. They may be especially susceptible to revictimization because of age-related changes in both episodic memory and social motivation. Here we examined these factors in a context where adaptive social decision-making requires intact associative memory for previous social interactions. Older adults made more maladaptive episodic memory-guided social decisions but not only because of poorer associative memory. Older adults were biased toward remembering people as being fair, while young adults were biased toward remembering people as being unfair. Holding memory constant, older adults engaged more with people that were familiar (regardless of the nature of the previous interaction), whereas young adults were prone to avoiding others that they remembered as being unfair. Finally, older adults were more influenced by facial appearances, choosing to interact with social partners that looked more generous, even though those perceptions were inconsistent with prior experience.
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