Ageism
Subtitle: stereotyping and prejudice against older persons
By: edited by Todd D. Nelson
Contributors: Nelson, Todd D., 1966-
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Ageism; Ageism -- United States
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Doddering but dear: process, content, and function in stereotyping of older persons / Amy J.C. Cuddy and Susan T. Fiske; title: Ageism: denying the face of the future / Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, and Andy Mertens; title: Implicit ageism / Becca R. Levy and Mahzarin R. Banaji; title: A social-developmental view of ageism / Joann M. Montepare and Leslie A. Zebrowitz; title: Attitudes toward older adults / Mary E. Kite and Lisa Smith Wagner; title: Ageism in the workplace: a communication perspective / Robert McCann and Howard Giles; title: Ageist behavior / Monisha Pasupathi and Corinna E. Löckenhoff; title: The paradox of well-being, identity processes, and stereotype threat: ageism and its potential relationships to self in later life / Susan Krauss Whitbourne And Joel R. Sneed; title: Acting your age / Sarit A. Golub, Allan Filipowicz, and Ellen J. Langer; title: Will families support their elders? Answers from across cultures / Sik Hung Ng; title: Reducing ageism / Valerie Braithwaite; title: Thirty years of ageism research / Jody A. Wilkinson and Kenneth F. Ferraro