
experiments were excluded because the subjects did not complete all
the necessary questionnaires. Thus, the corpus consisted of data sets
from 130 subjects. Seventy of them were between 18 and 28 years old
(‘young’; mean = 23.2; median = 23.0; std = 2.9; 35 males, 35 females),
and 60 of them were 60 years old or older (‘elderly’; mean = 68.1;
median = 67.0; std = 4.8; the oldest subject was 81 years old; 29 males,
31 females). Within the young group, 44 subjects had a high school
diploma, and 26 had none. Within the elderly group, 35 subjects had a
high school diploma or a university degree and 25 subjects had none.
In addition to the main experiment, ...