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Mood and Social Judgments: The Influence of Affect on Age-Related Differences in the Correspondence Bias

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dc.contributor.advisor Blanchard-Fields, Fredda
dc.contributor.author Mienaltowski, Andrew S. en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Hertzog, Christopher
dc.contributor.committeeMember Feldman, Jack
dc.contributor.department Psychology en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2005-03-01T19:30:40Z
dc.date.available 2005-03-01T19:30:40Z
dc.date.issued 2004-11-19 en_US
dc.description.abstract Although age-related differences in the correspondence bias are often attributed to cognitive decline, the present study found that age-related differences in the correspondence bias were differentially influenced by the participants mood states. Young and older participants completed an attitude-attribution task after having been induced to experience a positive, neutral, or negative mood. Whereas older adults demonstrated the correspondence bias more strongly in the negative mood condition relative to the positive mood condition, young adults exhibited the exact opposite pattern of results. Interestingly, the positive mood manipulation led older adults to be no more dispositionally biased than their younger counterparts. Further, mood and age-related differences in attributional confidence were not eliminated after controlling for individual differences in cognitive functioning. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/4834
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Attributions en_US
dc.subject Correspondence bias
dc.subject Aging
dc.subject Mood
dc.subject.lcsh Mood (Psychology) Age factors en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Social perception en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Affect (Psychology) en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Attribution (Social psychology) Age factors en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Emotions en_US
dc.title Mood and Social Judgments: The Influence of Affect on Age-Related Differences in the Correspondence Bias en_US
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local.contributor.corporatename College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename School of Psychology
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