Advances in Social Psychology

young and olg group (-25 and 65+) - male midwife attributes using both emergent and constituent attributes

older adults more readily categorise, but find difficult to resolve inconsistency through use of existing social categories

DSST (measure of attentional ability) and stroop task

found older pps genrating more emergent attributes and age negatively associated with attention (older reduced executive ability) - but this relationship is non-significant when attention is mediator

older people use stereoptyes and use executive resourses to do this cus target wouldnt fit exisiting category (less flexible)

all pps view pics of congruent/incongruent social category conjunctions (male vs female pilot) which processing goal instructions (social and non-social tasks) 

non-social tasks didnt differ in response times across congruent/incongruent targets

social task responded more slowly to categorising incongruent conjunctions (incong arent easily categorisable)

processing incong led to FFS active for human faces, EBA and FBA for human bodies

activation of DLPFC for excutive control

active areas suggest forming impressions for incongruent conjunctions rely on individuation - resulting from cognitively effortful inconsistency resolution