MINDRAMP PODCAST - FLOURISH AS YOU AGE

AGEISM: - How We Become Ageist

March 31, 2021 Michael C Patterson, Roger Anunsen Season 1 Episode 5
MINDRAMP PODCAST - FLOURISH AS YOU AGE
AGEISM: - How We Become Ageist
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In this episode, we ask how negative age stereotypes develop and are perpetuated. With stereotyping, an “in-group” (young adults) tends to define and perpetuate a negative image of an “out-group” (older adults).  Becca Levy’s Stereotype Embodiment Theory suggests that we acquire age stereotypes about old people when we are children and reinforce them during adulthood. As younger adults become older adults, they inevitably lose their in-group status and become associated with the out-group and find themselves to the same ageist prejudices and discrimination they perpetuate when young.

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Introduction
We Assimilate Stereotypes When Young
Reinforcing Stereotypes; In Groups vs. Out Groups
Anti-Aging Industry
Workplace Discrimination
We All Age Into the Ageist Outgroup
Dangers of Internalized Ageism: Placebo and Nocebo Effects
Summary and Conclusion