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Download full textPress, Allan N.; And Others – 1981
Recent research has argued that negative stereotypes of older people are most likely to be found when age is a salient dimension for the judgements being made, e.g., when subjects' judgements of the elderly involve a comparison with younger people. When judgements of the elderly are made without an external reference group, such negative…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Chronological Age, Comparative Analysis
