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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Gerontology

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  • Older adults are disproportionately targeted by financial fraud.
  • Age-related declines in episodic memory and social motivation may increase vulnerability to revictimization.
  • Adaptive social decision-making relies on associative memory of past interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how episodic memory and social motivation influence social decision-making in older adults.
  • To compare social decision-making strategies between older and younger adults.
  • To identify factors contributing to older adults' susceptibility to financial fraud.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in social decision-making tasks requiring memory of prior interactions.
  • Evaluated the role of associative memory, familiarity, and facial appearance in guiding choices.
  • Compared decision-making patterns between older and younger adult groups.

Main Results:

  • Older adults exhibited more maladaptive social decisions compared to younger adults.
  • Older adults showed a bias towards remembering individuals as fair, unlike younger adults who recalled unfairness.
  • Familiarity, rather than interaction history, drove older adults' engagement; facial appearance overrode memory of unfairness.

Conclusions:

  • Age-related memory and motivational changes impact social decision-making, increasing fraud risk.
  • Older adults' biases in social memory and reliance on appearance contribute to maladaptive choices.
  • Interventions should address memory biases and appearance-based judgments to protect older adults from fraud.