Aging is associated with multidirectional changes in social cognition: findings from an adult lifespan sample ranging from 18 to 101 years.
Sarah A GraingerJohn D CrawfordJulia C RichesNicole A KochanRussell J ChanderKaren A MatherPerminder Singh SachdevJulie D HenryPublished in: The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences (2022)
These findings provide novel and important evidence that normative aging is associated with both gains and losses in social cognition that occur at distinct points of the adult lifespan, and that are at least partially independent of general age related cognitive decline.