This Old Stereotype: The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Elderly Stereotype

By Amy J. C. Cuddy, Michael I. Norton, Susan T. Fiske. 2005

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Subfields: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Not an outgroup, not yet an ingroup: Immigrants in the Stereotype Content Model (2006, background): “For comparison with our immigrant groups, and to anchor the social space, we included eight groups that have reliably appeared in one of the four SCM quadrants: Americans and college students in high-competence and high-warmth, rich people and professionals in high-competence and low-warmth, elderly”
Contact, Anxiety, and Young People's Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Towards the Elderly (2010, background): “This ambivalent view of elderly people results in both positive (e.g., helping) and negative (e.g., excluding) behaviors (Cuddy et al., 2005).”
(In)validating Stereotypes About Older Workers Influences Their Intentions to Retire Early and to Learn and Develop (2010, neutral): “Conversely, they are positively valued on their warmth: Elderly are perceived as friendly, sincere, and warm (Cuddy & Fiske, 2002 ; Cuddy, Norton, & Fiske, 2005 ).”
Compensation between warmth and competence: Antecedents and consequences of a negative relation between the two fundamental dimensions of social perception (2010, background): “But we note that Cuddy et al. (2004, 2005) found a negative relationship between warmth and competence even though their experiment did not set up a comparative context.”
Nonprofits are seen as warm and for-profits as competent: Firm stereotypes matter (2010, background): “Cuddy et al. (2005) argued that the conceptual categorization suggests that people make upward assimilative social comparisons toward others who are perceived as warm and competent (eliciting admiration and pride) but that people make downward contrastive comparisons toward others who are perceived…”
Who Are You Calling Old? Negotiating Old Age Identity in the Elderly Consumption Ensemble (2013, background): “Other negative stereotypes include inflexibility, lack of productivity, senility, frailty, lethargy, incompetence, and helplessness (Cardinali and Gordon 2002; Cuddy, Norton, and Fiske 2005).”