Assignment 11: First Draft of Annotated Bibliography

Widrick, R.M, & Raskin, J.D. (20120). Age-related stigma and the golden section hypothesis. Aging and Mental Health, 14(4), 475-385. Doi: 10.1081/1360903167846

“Age-related stigma and the golden section hypothesis” is a study that investigated whether people interpreted identities associated with old age as negative or positive.  The golden section hypothesis refers to the idea that people give positive adjectives 61.8% of the time and negative adjectives 38.2% of the time.  In the case of old age, the phenomena are reversed.  This is a good source for my project because there is a lot of useful information and the authors cited everything so it is very creditable.  Also there is a whole case study that is cited in the article.

Castelli, L., Zecchini, A., Peamicis, L., & Sherman, S.J. (2005) The Impact of Implicit Prejudice about the Elderly on the Reaction to Stereotype Confirmation and Disconfirmation. Current Psychology, 24(2), 134-146.

This is a case study on ageism.  High prejudice people will implicitly favor stereotypers and will derogate group members who use stereotype-inconsistent information.  This case study investigates if this is true on the subject of ageism also.  This is a good source for my project because the study investigates people’s implicit opinions of old people as well as what they will explicitly say about old people.  The authors also cited every thing very well so there is a lot of credibility.

Chasteen, A.L. (2000). The Role of Age and Age-Related Attitudes in Perceptions of Elderly Individuals. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 22(3), 147-156. Doi: 10.1207/S15324834BASP2203_3

The goal of this study was to find the role of age-related attitudes in perceptions of old people.  Results shoed that group attitudes and own aging attitudes were related to judgments of elderly targets when the elderly person was considered as a typical old person.  This study is a very good source because the author did not bias the study at all.  There were no assumptions that the results would show negative attitudes.  The author made plenty of citations and also it says that she works in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto so that adds to her credibility.

Umphrey, D., & Robinson, T. (2007). Negative Sterotypes Underlying Other-Person Perceptions of the Elderly. Educational Gerontolgy, 33(4), 309-326. Doi:10.1080/03601270701198885

Umphrey and Robinson are social psychologists and they found in their studies that more than 30% of people draw on negative stereotypes when they are making estimates about advertising effects on old people. This is a good source because it addresses how the media effects our perceptions of old people as well as the distance young people have will old people which fuels stereotypes.