Question

In hess and pullen s (1994) study of impression formation it was found that when negative information was provided after an initial positive portrayal of a person, older adults

Answer 1

Older adults were more averse to change their impression than younger adults.
Impression formation in social psychology alludes to the procedure by which singular pieces of data about someone else are coordinated to shape a global impression of the individual i.e. how one individual sees someone else.