Effects of elderly priming on driving speeds: a driving simulator study
Description
Research on priming has shown that a stimulus can cause people to behave according to the stereotype held about the stimulus. Two experiments were conducted in which the effects of elderly priming were tested by use of a driving simulator. In both experiments, participants drove through a simulated world guided by either an elderly or a younger female voice. The voices told the participants where to make each of six turns. Both experiments yielded slower driving speeds in the elderly voice condition. The effect was universal regardless of implicit and explicit attitudes towards elderly people.
Date Created
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2012
Agent
- Author (aut): Foster, L Bryant
- Thesis advisor (ths): Branaghan, Russell
- Committee member: Becker, David
- Committee member: Cooke, Nancy J.
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University