Responses to patronizing communication and factors that attenuate those responses

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 552-560

  Hehman, Jessica A ^a   Bugental, Daphne Blunt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age based stigma; Cortisol; Older adults; Patronizing communication

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PATRONIZING COMMUNICATION; PITCH; SALIVA LEVEL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STIGMA; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESCHLER ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE III BLOCK DESIGN; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ATTITUDE; BLOOD; COGNITION; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SELF CONCEPT; SPEECH; STEREOTYPING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SELF CONCEPT; SPEECH; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940892359     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pag0000041     Document Type: Article

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