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Stereotyping of older adults
— the role of target facial cues and perceiver characteristics | | Author(s) | Mary Lee Hummert, Teri A Garstka, Jaye L Shaner |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 12, no 1, March 1997 |
| Pages | pp 107-114 |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Cognitive processes ; Young adults [20-25] ; Adults ; Middle aged ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | This two-part study used photographs and photograph-stereotype sorting tasks to examine the role of target facial cues in stereotyping of older people. As predicted, young, middle-aged, and older participants associated photographs of those who looked older and those with a neutral facial expression with fewer positive stereotypes than other photographs. Participants also selected fewer positive stereotypes for photographs of women than of men, except where photographs showed old-old (80 years and over) men. Participant age affected stereotyping only of the photographs of old-old people, with older participants selecting fewer positive stereotypes for those photographs than middle-aged and young participants. These results establish the importance of facial cues in the age stereotyping process, and suggest age boundaries for positive stereotypes of men and women. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971120240 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: DA: SD6: SD: SE: 3KB |
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