Having a " senior moment": Induced aging phenomenology, subjective age, and susceptibility to ageist stereotypes

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 643-649

  Eibach, Richard P ^a   Mock, Steven E ^a   Courtney, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageism; Aging; Attribution; Possible selves; Self perception; Stereotypes; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951621330     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Alter A.L., Oppenheimer D.M., Epley N., Eyre R.N. Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2007, 136:569-576.
2. Alter A.L., Oppenheimer D.M. Uniting the tribes of fluency to form a metacognitive nation. Personality and Social Psychology Review 2009, 13:219-235.
3. Bargh J., Chen M., Burrows L. Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1996, 71:230-244.
4. Bassili J.N., Reil J.E. On the dominance of the old age stereotype. Journal of Gerontology 1981, 36:682-688.
5. Brewer P.R. Values, political knowledge, and public opinion about gay rights: A framing-based account. Public Opinion Quarterly 2002, 67:173-201.
6. Bybee J.A., Wells Y.V. The development of possible selves during adulthood. Handbook of adult development 2003, 257-270. Kluwer/Plenum, New York. J. Demick, C. Andreoletti (Eds.).
7. Bybee J.A., Wells Y.V. Body themes in descriptions of possible selves: Diverse perspectives across the lifespan. Journal of Adult Development 2006, 13:95-101.
8. Chown S.A. Aging and the rigidities. Journal of Gerontology 1961, 16:353-362.
9. Cross S., Markus H. Possible selves across the life span. Human Development 1991, 34:230-255.
10. Cuddy A.J.C., Norton M.I., Fiske S.T. This old stereotype: The pervasiveness and persistence of the old age stereotype. Journal of Social Issues 2005, 61:267-285.
11. Dark-Freedman A., West R.L., Viverito K.M. Future selves and aging: Older adults' memory fears. Educational Gerontology 2006, 32:85-109.
12. Ellis S.R., Morrison T.G. Stereotypes of ageing: Messages promoted by age-specific birthday cards available in Canada. International Journal of Aging and Human Development 2005, 61:57-73.
13. Fisher P. Is there an emerging age gap in US politics?. Society 2008, 45:504-511.
14. Frable D.E.S., Platt L., Hoey S. Concealable stigmas and positive self-perceptions: Feeling better around similar others. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1998, 74:909-922.
15. Glenn N.D. Aging and conservatism. Annuals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 1974, 415:176-186.
16. Gullette M.M. Midlife discourses in the twentieth-century United States: An essay on the sexuality, ideology, and politics of " middle-ageism" Welcome to middle age! (and other cultural fictions) 1998, 3-44. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. R. Shweder (Ed.).
17. Heine S.J., Proulx T., Vohs K.D. The meaning maintenance model: On the coherence of social motivations. Personality and Social Psychology Review 2006, 10:88-111.
18. Hooker K., Kaus C.R. Health-related possible selves in young and middle adulthood. Psychology and Aging 1994, 9:126-133.
19. Kite M.E., Wagner L.S. Attitudes toward older adults. Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons 2002, 129-162. MIT Press, Boston, MA. T.D. Nelson (Ed.).
20. Levy B.R. Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2003, 58B:203-211.
21. Levy B.R., Banaji M. Implicit ageism. Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons 2002, 49-76. MIT Press, Boston, MA. T.D. Nelson (Ed.).
22. Markus H., Nurius P. Possible selves. American Psychologist 1986, 41:954-969.
23. Mock, S. E., & Eibach, R. P. (2010). Subjective age moderates the effects of ageist stereotypes on subjective well-being: Evidence from a 10-year longitudinal study. Unpublished manuscript.
24. Montepare J.M. Subjective age: Toward a guiding lifespan framework. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2009, 33:42-46.
25. Montepare J.M., Lachman M.E. " You're only as old as you feel": Self-perceptions of age, fears of aging, and life satisfaction from adolescence to old age. Psychology and Aging 1989, 4:73-78.
26. Oppenheimer D.M. Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly. Applied Cognitive Psychology 2006, 20:139-156.
27. Proulx T., Heine S.J. The case of the transmogrifying experimenter: Affirmation of a moral schema following implicit change detection. Psychological Science 2008, 19:1294-1300.
28. Richeson J.L., Shelton J.N. A social psychological perspective on the stigmatization of older adults. When I'm 64 2006, 174-208. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. L.L. Carstensen, C.R. Hartel (Eds.).
29. Ross M. Relation of implicit theories to the construction of personal histories. Psychological Review 1989, 96:341-357.
30. Rubin D.C., Berntsen D. People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: Subjective age across the lifespan. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 2006, 13:776-780.
31. Seneca Letters from a stoic 1969, Penguin, New York.
32. Whitbourne S.K., Hulicka I.M. Ageism in undergraduate psychology texts. American Psychologist 1990, 45:1127-1136.
33. Whitbourne S.K., Collins K.J. Identity processes and perceptions of physical functioning in adults: Theoretical and clinical implications. Psychotherapy 1998, 35:519-530.