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| Age related health stereotypes and illusory correlation | | Author(s) | Scott F Madey, Alison L Chasteen |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 58, no 2, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 109-126 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Medical care ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Young adults [20-25] ; Age groups [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Previous research has shown that stereotypes of young adults include healthy components, but stereotypes of older people include both healthy and unhealthy components. The authors of the present study predicted that younger patients in poor health would violate people's expectations about health in younger individuals. As a result of this violation, people would perceive younger patients to be more non-cooperative than older patients. On the other hand, because people's stereotypes of older patients contain both good and poor health components, non-cooperative older patients would be no more memorable than those who were co-operative. These hypotheses were supported by data showing that both younger and older participants formed illusory correlations between younger patients and non co-operative behaviour, but not between older patients and non-cooperative behaviour. Implications on how age-related health stereotypes might affect beliefs about compliance and healthcare policy are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040809202 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK: TOB: SD6: BB: 7T |
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