Perceptions of forgetful and slow employees: Does age matter?

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Erber, Joan T ^a   Long, Beverly A ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGEISM; ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; EMPATHY; EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 33751557322     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/61.6.P333     Document Type: Article

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