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Implicit Ageism and Age-Related Stereotypes Between the Old and Young.
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IMPLICIT, AGE-RELATED STEREOTYPES BETWEEN THE OLD AND YOUNG. Abstract: This study examined the implicit and explicit stereotypes that first year Psychology students at the university of New South Wales have of young and old people. Each student completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) using photographs of young and old people and matching them up to Bad-Good words such as (evil, joy, happy, failure). A random sample of the IAT tests were examined and recorded. Once the results had been calculated it was found that males had an average IAT score of 1.875 and females 1.784. This indicated that both males and females show a significantly higher explicit than implicit preference for old people and furthermore, have a strong to moderate automatic preference for young people. "Certain stereotypes and myths have grown up in Western cultures in relation to old people and the roles that they play in our society". For a number...
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