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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology

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  • Facial trustworthiness influences decision-making.
  • Older adults are more susceptible to deception and exploitation.
  • Age-related changes impact social cognition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age differences in decision-making using facial trustworthiness cues.
  • To examine how congruent and incongruent social information affects younger and older adults.
  • To assess learning and performance on a novel social gambling task.

Main Methods:

  • Developed and utilized the social Iowa Gambling Task (S-IGT) with congruent (CS-IGT) and incongruent (IS-IGT) conditions.
  • Recruited younger (n=143) and older (n=129) adult participants.
  • Employed multilevel modeling to analyze performance over time.

Main Results:

  • Both age groups initially preferred trustworthy faces.
  • Older adults demonstrated poorer overall performance compared to younger adults.
  • Older adults showed significantly worse performance on the IS-IGT, indicating difficulty with incongruent social cues.

Conclusions:

  • Facial trustworthiness significantly impacts decision-making across age groups.
  • Older adults exhibit greater challenges in integrating incongruent social information, potentially due to reduced sensitivity to negative social cues.
  • Age-related differences in decision-making are amplified in complex social scenarios involving deceptive cues.