Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adults: An Updated Meta‐Analytic Review

By M. Kite, G. Stockdale, B. Whitley, Blair T. Johnson. 2005

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Subfields: Demography, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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Pervasiveness and correlates of implicit attitudes and stereotypes (2007, neutral): “For example, a metaanalysis of age attitudes noted a distinct lack of evidence regarding race or ethnicity differences within the US or cross-culturally (Kite et al., 2005).”
Beyond the double-jeopardy hypothesis: Assessing emotion on the faces of multiply-categorizable targets of prejudice (2009, background): “Pretesting confirmed that young targets were perceived as more youthful and, in line with stereotypes linking youth and beauty (e.g. Kite et al., 2005), more attractive than older targets.”
Perceived Age Discrimination and Mental Health (2007, background): “For example, the elderly tend to be characterized as warm but incompetent (Cuddy and Fiske 2002; Fiske et al. 2002, 1999; Heckhausen, Dixon and Baltes 1989; Kite et al. 2005).”
Progress on Understanding Ageism (2016, background): “The gender of older adults that participants have in mind while they evaluate measures of ageist attitudes might also be considered as there are differences in attitudes toward older women and men (see Chrisler et al., 2016, also see Kite et al., 2005).”
A conceptual analysis of Ageism (2009, background): “Although the positive ageism seems less common than the negative (Larsen & Solem, 2007), future research should be aware of its existence and study this aspect more thoroughly. The first step in this direction is an explicit incorporation of the aspect in the definition of the concept. In the new de”
(In)validating Stereotypes About Older Workers Influences Their Intentions to Retire Early and to Learn and Develop (2010, neutral): “Surprisingly, despite theoretical propositions that emphasize the importance of the psychosocial approach of aging at work (eg, Faurie, Fraccaroli, & Leblanc, 2008 ; Sterns & Miklos, 1995 ) and despite numerous data that attest to ageist stereotypes in work settings (see the meta-analysis of Kite,”
Effects of Intergenerational Interaction on Aging (2008, result): “The results of two more recent studies are in the same vein (Kite, Stockdale, Whitley, & Johnson, 2005 ).”
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment (2019, neutral): “4 scenarios tying attitudes toward older workers to adverse labor market outcomes for them (Finkelstein et al., 1995; Kite et al., 2005), although more recent evidence suggests these negative stereotypes may have declined in importance (Gordon and Arvey, 2004).”