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TORONTO, Ontario /
Globe and Mail / Life / Facts & Arguments / October 2, 2009
Social Studies
Age and prejudice
By Michael Kesterton
“There are a lot of clichés thrown around about the elderly, but one that seems to be true – or at least is backed up by research – is the belief that they tend to be more prejudiced than younger people,” Tom Jacobs reports for Miller-McCune.com.
In two recently published papers, psychologists
William von Hippel, of the University of Queensland in Australia, and
Gabriel Radvansky, of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, provide compelling support for this concept.
William von Hippel
In the
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, they describe a series of experiments in which older adults had greater memory for “stereotype-consistent situation models.”
Gabriel Radvansky
They add that it appears to be a general phenomenon of aging and that some older adults “may be relying on stereotypes despite their best intentions to the contrary.” [
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In two recently published papers, psychologists William von Hippel, of the University of Queensland in Australia, and Gabriel Radvansky, of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, provide compelling support for this concept.
William von Hippel
In the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, they describe a series of experiments in which older adults had greater memory for “stereotype-consistent situation models.”
Gabriel Radvansky
They add that it appears to be a general phenomenon of aging and that some older adults “may be relying on stereotypes despite their best intentions to the contrary.” [rc]
© Copyright 2009 CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc.
