Are negative views of aging assimilated into adults' views of themselves?
ANSWER:
Kotter-Gruhn and Hess (2012) began with the premise that self-perceptions are important to health and well-being. They were interested in finding out whether or not stereotypes about aging affected self-perceptions. Their subjects were 183 adults aged 18-92 years. Their results showed that as participant age increased, participants indicated they felt, wanted to be, and looked younger than their actual age.
Interestingly, positive priming tasks did not make people feel younger. The researchers concluded that people's perceptions of their own aging is not made more positive by providing them with positive images of aging. Negative images had more effect than positive ones on people's self-perceptions.
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