Commentaries on "mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes" and author's reply: When is an age stereotype an aging self-stereotype? A commentary

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Hummert, Mary Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; HEALTH; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STEREOTYPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONTROL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0041349312     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/58.4.p212     Document Type: Review

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