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Who Will Be More Egocentric? Age Differences in the Impact of Retrospective Self-Experience on Interpersonal Emotion Intensity Judgment
- Source :
- Behavioral Sciences, Vol 14, Iss 4, p 299 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2024.
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Abstract
- This study investigates whether the retrospective self-experience of older adults affects and biases interpersonal emotion judgment more than that of younger adults by adopting the paradigm of the self-generated anchoring effect. Participants (older adults: n = 63; younger adults: n = 65) were required to retrospectively consider their self-experiences and judge their possible emotion intensity in anchor-generating scenarios (high- or low-anchor scenarios). Subsequently, participants estimated the protagonist’s emotion intensity in target scenarios. The age-related interaction effect showed that older adults exhibited a significant self-generated anchoring effect in more emotion categories (four emotions) compared with younger adults (two emotions). After controlling for inhibition or working memory as a covariant, this interaction effect was no longer significant. The results from multilevel regression analysis also indicated the significant effect of self-emotion across all models on participants’ judgment of others’ emotions. The results indicated that older adults were more affected by retrospective self-experiences, leading to more egocentric judgment, than younger adults. This different influence from the retrospective self-experiences might partially have been caused by the age-related difference in cognitive abilities.
- Subjects :
- egocentric
older adults
emotion judgment
anchoring effect
Psychology
BF1-990
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2076328X
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Behavioral Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.8f3274115ff4abf8c49d28142cb858c
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14040299