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  • 15 - Memory and Aging in Social Contexts

  • from Part III - Aging in a Socioemotional Context
  • Edited by Ayanna K. Thomas, Tufts University, Massachusetts, Angela Gutchess, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Aging
    Published online:
    28 May 2020
    Print publication:
    28 May 2020, pp 281-298

  • Summary

    Older adults often collaborate with others to recreate past events and reminisce. In the current chapter, we discuss the patterns of gains and losses associated with social memory and aging specifically as they relate to research on collaborative remembering and social contagion. Within the collaborative remembering literatures, we focus on different methods of measuring group and individual memory performance and the role of partner familiarity. Within social contagion, we focus on age differences in susceptibility to socially suggested false memories and how perceptions of age influence the effects. Across literatures, there is some disagreement on precisely how and when collaboration benefits and/or disrupts older adults’ memories. However, there is strong agreement that collaboration influences memory and that social influence is an important contextual factor on older adults’ cognition.