Social stereotypes with aged persons

2008-06-23 » 5bfb5bf6 Stereotypes about the aged tend to emphasise negative images such as wrinkled, slow, helpless, dependent, sickly, thin, deformed, stoop-shouldered, and dentured. In this study, 125 adults in three age groups (young, middle-aged, and elderly) rated the typicality and approximate age of individuals representing 11 stereotypes of the elderly. The negative [...]