Older Adults May Be Less Likely to Notice Their Mistakes

A new study suggests that as we get older, we become much less likely to notice our mistakes.

The study involved a simple, computerized test designed to determine how readily both younger and older adults were able to detect when they’d made an error.

Although the older adults performed just as well as the younger adults in the actual experiment, the younger adults more readily recognized when they had made a mistake — and remained more open to the possibility that they may have...

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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/08/05/older-adults-may-be-less-likely-to-notice-their-mistakes/137595.html