APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Age-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Attraction Effect, Risk-Taking, and Cognitive Errors
- Grzegorz Sedek
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Maciej Koscielniak
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Klara Rydzewska
SWPS University, ICACS
Abstract
The aim of current research is to explore age differences in Attraction Effect as a function of motivational and cognitive variables. Older adults were more prone to cognitive errors, but unexpectedly they were also more risk-taking in their decisions. Age-related changes in susceptibility to context manipulations were minimal.
Aging
