OBJECTIVES Older adults tend to exhibit the correspondence bias to a greater extent than young adults. The current study examined whether these age differences are a function of the degree to which an individual subscribes to a lay theory of attitude-behavior consistency. METHODS First, participants responded to questions regarding their beliefs about attitude-behavior consistency. Approximat...

objectives: this study sought to assess the relation of mandibular cortical index (mci) with age, gender and gonial angle size in an iranian adult population using digital panoramic radiography. methods: we evaluated 370 digital panoramic radiographs of patients and divided them into five 10-year age groups. each radiograph was assigned to low (≤120°) or high (≥125°) angle groups in terms of th...

Closed class (determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions etc. ) and open class (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) words have different linguistic functions and have been proposed to be processed by different neural systems. Here, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in young German-speaking subjects while they read closed class and open class words flashed upon a video-screen. ...

L IVER allografting induces specific systemic unresponsiveness to subsequent other donor tissues in pigs. l rats,2 and mice.3..Although the mechanism remains unclear, soluble donor crass I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens and/or anti-donor class II alloantibodies have been proposed as critical components of the induced unresponsiveness.2.4.5 If those explanations are correct, a l...

One of the difficulties in interpreting the relation between fertility and measured intelligence is the possible influence of birth order. Penrose (1963), among others, has recognized that a negative correlation between sibship size and intelligence would result if birth order and intelligence were also negatively correlated. For various reasons most observations on birth order and intelligence...

The proposal that age-related differences in some measures of speed of performance may not be independent of the age-related differences in other measures of speed of performance has been associated with considerable controversy. Because converging evidence can often resolve this type of controversy, correlation-based procedures are proposed to distinguish general (or common) and specific (or u...

Two experiments investigated the influence of top-down information on adult age differences in the ability to search for singleton targets using spatial cues. In Experiment 1, both younger and older adults were equally able to use target-related top-down information (target feature predictability) to avoid attentional capture by uninformative (25% valid) cues. However, during informative (75% v...

Using contemporary population data from Taiwan, we examine the relationships between parental age difference, educationally assortative mating, income and offspring count. Controlling for women's reproductive value (measured by age at first birth), we find that an older husband is associated with fewer offspring, whereas a husband with similar or higher education is associated with more offspri...

Traditional emotion perception tasks show that older adults are less accurate than are young adults at recognizing facial expressions of emotion. Recently, we proposed that socioemotional factors might explain why older adults seem impaired in lab tasks but less so in everyday life (Isaacowitz & Stanley, 2011). Thus, in the present research we empirically tested whether socioemotional factors s...