Older adults had reduced accuracy when it came to detecting non-COVID misinformation, especially among people with higher positive affect.

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The idea that the way people process things are affected by their emotions. Further, older adults are influenced by emotional goals. 

The CISDA Model: Affect

Pehlivanoglu, D., Lighthall, N. R., Lin, T., Chi, K. J., Polk, R., Perez, E., Cahill, B. S., & Ebner, N. C. (2022). Aging in an “infodemic”: The role of analytical reasoning, affect, and news consumption frequency on news veracity detection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000426

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