Following Schmidt and Boland's (1986) method, college student informants sorted a trait set into 1 or more groups with reference to elderly or young adults. Analysis of these data confirmed the existence of multiple stereotypes of both age groups but showed little similarity between stereotypes of the elderly and the young. Other informants made attitude, age, and typicality judgements of perso...

OBJECTIVES Research on age stereotypes suggests that views of older persons are complex and multidimensional. We investigated the positivity or negativity of age stereotypes with respect to different life domains. METHOD A newly developed questionnaire assessing domain-specific age stereotypes was administered to a large sample of adults covering a wide age range. RESULTS Our findings confi...

The stereotyping literature within psychology has grown considerably over the past decade. In large part, this growth can be attributed to progress in understanding the individual mechanisms that give rise to stereotypic thinking. In the current review, the recent psychological literature on stereotypes is reviewed, with particular emphasis given to the cognitive and motivational factors that c...

This research demonstrates that subliminally activated stereotypes can alter judgments about oneself and can change cognitive performance. In the first study, an intervention that activated positive stereotypes of aging without the participants' awareness tended to improve memory performance, memory self-efficacy, and views of aging in old individuals; in contrast, an intervention that activate...

In today’s business and pandemic scenario, working in an international team is common with remote workers, overseas offices, inescapable cultural gaps. The diversity of co-workers may become a barrier that some people don’t know how to overcome. Most the professionals do not even realize problems differences their work. Cultural awareness helps managers effectively transact employees other stak...


 Phonogram is a visual element in comics that represents the existence of sound. Together with picture elements, they both create construction governed by narrative. As manifestation sound, phonogram’s also delivers message form signs. By using semiotic approach, this study seeks to identify nature phonogram, its function, and way it produced perceived. Symbolic messages are created drama...

OBJECTIVES Previous studies showed that negative self-stereotypes detrimentally affect the cognitive performance of marginalized group members; however, these findings were confined to short-term experiments. In the present study, we considered whether stereotypes predicted memory over time, which had not been previously examined. We also considered whether self-relevance increased the influenc...