Will age bias ever end? Maybe, in certain countries. However, prejudices against older adults seem rather widespread in more individualistic countries, according to a team of researchers from Michigan State University. Two studies published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and European Journal of Social Psychology showed that such biases differed from one country to another and can impact our elders’ health.
To come to their conclusions, the researchers used the Implicit Association Test, which measures the strength of a person’s subconscious associations, on more than a total of 800,000 participants in each study from the Project Implicit database. Their main goa…
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