A5049483283- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
University of Geneva
2022-2025
Social media has transformed how people engage with the world around them. The positivity bias on social media, in particular, warrants in-depth investigation. This is particularly true as previous research concentrated one specific platform, Facebook. Based a pilot study of 279 university students, this pre-registered experimental used mixed design to examine Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X. After recalling personal event, 312 participants were randomly assigned imagine telling event...
Promoting vaccine uptake is challenging. This research aimed to experimentally test the effect of communication strategies on influenza intention. We hypothesized that descriptive norm level (10%-50%-90% others vaccinated) intention would vary according whether benefits are focused individual (self-interest motives) or (herd-immunity motives). In particular, we predicted low and high levels norms be detrimental in herd-immunity condition (inverted-U pattern). contrast, should increase...
Objective: Consistent with research on stereotype threat, when examiners' characteristics make a of the participant group salient, it can hamper participants' performance. We hypothesized that younger examiners represent subtle element activating age stereotypes, leading older people to perform worse as decreases. Method: analyzed data from Survey Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE; NParticipants = 32768) Vivre-Leben-Vivere studies (VLV, Nparticipants 960), wherein were tested...
Abstract This study investigated whether the age of examiner effect, that is, positive relation between cognitive performance older people and their examiner, relies on stereotype threat. Data from Survey Health, Ageing Retirement in Europe (SHARE), European Social Survey, Statistical Office (Eurostat) United Nations Economic Commission for were crossed. Older different countries tested verbal short‐ long‐term recall components memory, by examiners ages. Country‐specific indicators negative...