Do Beliefs That Older Adults Are Inflexible Serve as a Barrier to Racial Equality?
| Autor: | Chaney KE; University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA., Chasteen AL; University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Personality & social psychology bulletin [Pers Soc Psychol Bull] 2024 Aug; Vol. 50 (8), pp. 1151-1166. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 31. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01461672231159767 |
| Abstrakt: | Past research has demonstrated that older adults are stereotyped as less malleable than young adults. Moreover, beliefs that people are less malleable are associated with lower confrontations of prejudice, as perpetrators are seen as less capable of changing their (prejudiced) behavior. The present research sought to integrate these lines of research to demonstrate that endorsement of ageist beliefs that older adults are less malleable will lead to a lower confrontation of anti-Black prejudice espoused by older adults. Across four experimental studies ( N = 1,573), people were less likely to confront anti-Black prejudice espoused by an 82-year-old compared with a 62-, 42-, or 20-year-old, due, in part, to beliefs that older adults are less malleable. Further exploration demonstrated that malleability beliefs about older adults were held across young, middle-aged, and older adult samples. These findings demonstrate how stereotypes about older adults can impede racial equality. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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