Category: Ageing Stereotypes

Abnormal vs Normal Ageing

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype Embodiment: A Psychosocial Approach to Aging. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(6), 332–336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01662.x.

Nyberg, L., Boraxbekk, C.J., Sörman, D.E., Hansson, P., Herlitz, A., Kauppi, K., Ljungberg, J.K., Lövheim, H., Lundquist, A., Adolfsson, A.N. and Oudin, A. (2020). Biological and environmental predictors of heterogeneity in neurocognitive ageing: Evidence from Betula and other longitudinal studies. Ageing research reviews, 64, 101184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2020.101184.

Rowe, J. W., & Kahn, R. L. (1987). Human aging: usual and successful. Science, 237(4811), 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3299702

Rowe, J. W., & Kahn, R. L. (2015). Successful aging 2.0: Conceptual expansions for the 21st century. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 70(4), 593-596. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv025.

Segal, D. L., Qualls, S. H., & Smyer, M. A. (2018). Aging and mental health. John Wiley & Sons.

Views on Ageing…

Brothers, A. F., & Diehl, M. (2017). Feasibility and efficacy of the AgingPlus program: Changing views on aging to increase engagement in physical activity. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 25, 402-411.

Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., & Terracciano, A. (2018). Subjective Age and Mortality in Three Longitudinal Samples. Psychosomatic medicine, 80(7), 659–664. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000613.

Wurm, S., Diehl, M., Kornadt, A. E., Westerhof, G. J., & Wahl, H. W. (2017). How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection. Developmental Review, 46, 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2017.08.002.

Meaning-making is…

Caracciolo, M., & Kukkonen, K. (2021). With bodies: Narrative theory and embodied cognition. The Ohio State University Press.

Johnson, M. (2008). What makes a body? The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 22(3), 159-169. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670709.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books.

An individual’s embodied matrix…

Laditka, S. B., Laditka, J. N., Houck, M. M., & Olatosi, B. A. (2011). Not quite color blind: Ethnic and gender differences in attitudes toward older people among college students. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 73(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.73.1.c.

Levy, B. R., & Myers, L. M. (2004). Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging. Preventive medicine, 39(3), 625-629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.02.029.

Levy, B. R., Slade, M. D., & Gill, T. M. (2006). Hearing decline predicted by elders’ stereotypes. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 61(2), P82-P87. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/61.2.P82.

Kang, S. K., & Chasteen, A. L. (2009). The moderating role of age-group identification and perceived threat on stereotype threat among older adults. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 69(3), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.69.3.c.

Old people = reflection of future self

Chonody, J. M., & Teater, B. (2016). Why do I dread looking older?: a test of social identity theory, terror management, and the double standard of aging. Journal of Women & Aging, 28(2), 112-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2014.950533

Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Martens, A. (2002). Ageism: denying the face of the future. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism: stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 27-48). The MIT Press.

Martens, A., Greenberg, J., Schimel, J., & Landeau, M. J. (2004). Ageism and death: effects of mortality salience and perceived similarity to elders on reactions to elderly people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(12), 1524-1536. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167204271185.

Martens, A., Goldenberg, J. L., & Greenberg, J. (2005). A terror management perspective on ageism. Journal of Social Issues, 61(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2005.00403.x.

Wiseman, A., Heflick, N., & Goldenberg, J. L. (2015). The great escape: the role of self-esteem and self-regulation cognition in terror management. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.006.

Two types of prejudice…

Levy, B. R. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes, Journal of Gerontology, 58B(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.4.P203.

Mroczek, D. K. (2004). Positive and negative affect at midlife (chapter 7). In O. G. Brim, C. D. Ryff, & R. C. Kessler (Eds.), How healthy are we: A national study of well-being at mid-life (pp. 205-226). The University of Chicago Press.

Sherif, M (1953). The concept of reference groups in human relations. In M. Sherif & M. O. Wilson (Eds.), The University of Oklahoma lectures in social psychology: Group relations at the crossroads (pp. 203-231). Harper & Brothers. 

Treneman-Evans, S., & Halliwell, E. (2021, July 13-16). The effects of yoga and pilates on body image, mood, distress and appearance changes among women in mid-life [Online paper presentation]. Appearance Matters 9, Centre for Appearance Research (CAR), University of the West of England (UWE), Wales, United Kingdom.

Whitbourne, S., & Sneed, J. R. (2002). The paradox of well-being, identity processes, and stereotype threat: Ageism and its potential relationships to the self later in life (chapter 8). In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Ageism: Stereotyping and prejudice against older persons (pp. 247-273). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10679.001.0001

Old talk = communicates…

Becker, C. B., Diedrichs, P. C., Jankowski, G., and Werchan (2013). I’m not just fat, I’m old: has the study of body image overlooked “old talk”? Journal of Eating Disorders, 1(6). https://doi.org/10.1186/2050-2974-1-6.

Cash, T. F. (Ed.). (2012). Encyclopedia of body image and human appearance (Vol. 1, A-F). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2010-1-66177-9.

Donizzetti, A., R. (2019). Ageism in an ageing society: The role of knowledge, anxiety about aging, and stereotypes in young people and adults. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(8), 1329. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081329.

Grendon. T. L., & Lydecker, J. (2016). The thin-youth ideal: Should we talk about aging anxiety in relation to body image? The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 82(4). https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0091415016641693.

Levy, B. R. (2003). Mind matters: Cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes, Journal of Gerontology, 58B(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/58.4.P203.

Sampson, T. D. (2012). Virality: Contagion theory in the age of networks. University of Minnesota Press.