Age Stereotypes in Younger and Older Women: Analyses of Accommodative Shifts with a Sentence-Priming Task

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-26

  Wentura, Dirk ^a   Brandtstädter, Jochen ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult development; Affective priming; Aging; Self concept; Semantic priming; Spontaneous trait inferences; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0037271176     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1618-3169.50.1.16     Document Type: Article

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