Do Beliefs That Older Adults Are Inflexible Serve as a Barrier to Racial Equality?

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2023-03-31 DOI:10.1177/01461672231159767
Kimberly E Chaney, Alison L Chasteen
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Past research has demonstrated that older adults are stereotyped as less malleable than young adults. Moreover, beliefs that people are less malleable are associated with lower confrontations of prejudice, as perpetrators are seen as less capable of changing their (prejudiced) behavior. The present research sought to integrate these lines of research to demonstrate that endorsement of ageist beliefs that older adults are less malleable will lead to a lower confrontation of anti-Black prejudice espoused by older adults. Across four experimental studies (N = 1,573), people were less likely to confront anti-Black prejudice espoused by an 82-year-old compared with a 62-, 42-, or 20-year-old, due, in part, to beliefs that older adults are less malleable. Further exploration demonstrated that malleability beliefs about older adults were held across young, middle-aged, and older adult samples. These findings demonstrate how stereotypes about older adults can impede racial equality.

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认为老年人缺乏灵活性是否是种族平等的障碍?
过去的研究表明,与年轻人相比,老年人被定型为可塑性较差的人。此外,认为人的可塑性较低的观念与较低的偏见对抗相关,因为肇事者被认为改变其(偏见)行为的能力较低。本研究试图整合这些研究,以证明认同老年人可塑性较低的年龄歧视观念会导致老年人对反黑人偏见的对抗性较低。在四项实验研究中(N=1,573),与 62 岁、42 岁或 20 岁的人相比,82 岁的人面对反黑人偏见的可能性较低,部分原因是认为老年人的可塑性较低。进一步的研究表明,在青年、中年和老年样本中,都持有关于老年人可塑性的信念。这些研究结果表明了对老年人的刻板印象是如何阻碍种族平等的。
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期刊介绍: The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is the official journal for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal is an international outlet for original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
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