Dear TIPS colleagues,
I am pleased to tell you that Blackwell publishers is currently producing
issue 61 (2) of the Journal of Social Issues, which will focus on AGEISM
(prejudice against older adults). The issue should be published and
available by the end of May.
The issue represents the most current empirical and theoretical work by
distinguished researchers in the field of age prejudice (see Table of
Contents for the issue, at the end of this email). It is partitioned into
three sections: foundations of ageism, experiencing ageism, and
theoretical perspectives on ageism.
In social perception, we tend to automatically categorize people along
three primary dimensions: Race, Gender, and Age. These automatic
categorizations can and do facilitate the formation of category-specific
stereotypes. While researchers know much about Racism and Sexism, we know
comparatively little about Ageism. It can be argued that one reason this
is so, is that ageism is much more "invisible" (i.e., institutionalized in
our culture) than the other types of prejudice. For example, birthday cards
communicate the message "I am sorry to hear you are another year older".
There is a multi-billion dollar industry designed to hide signs of aging
(wigs, creams, makeup, and of course, plastic surgery).
Prejudice against older people is pervasive and a pernicious influence on
the health and well-being of older persons. It is my hope that this issue
will help highlight the great work being done in the field by these
distinguished researchers, and to help spark the imagination of other
researchers who can join us in identifying the causes, consequences, and
ways to reduce prejudice against older people.
Best,
Todd D. Nelson, Ph.D.
Gemperle Foundation Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
801 West Monte Vista Ave.
California State University
Turlock, California 95382
Office: (209) 667-3442
FAX: (209) 664-7067
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Journal of Social Issues issue 61(2)
-- Forthcoming in May, 2005
AGEISM
Issue Editor: Todd Nelson
Ageism: Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self
Todd D. Nelson
Foundations of Ageism
A Terror Management Perspective on Ageism
Andy Martens, Jamie L. Goldenberg, and Jeff Greenberg
Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adults: An Updated Meta-analytic
Review
Mary E. Kite, Gary D. Stockdale, Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., and
Blair T. Johnson
This Old Stereotype: The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Elderly
Stereotype
Amy J. C. Cuddy, Michael I. Norton, and Susan T. Fiske
Experiencing Ageism
Ageism and Ageist Language Across the Lifespan: Intimate Relationships and
Non-intimate Interactions
Jon F. Nussbaum, , Margaret J. Pitts, Frances N. Huber, Janice L. Krieger,
and Jennifer E. Ohs
Re-Vision of Older Television Characters: A Stereotype-Awareness
Intervention
Margie M. Donlon, Ori Ashman, and Becca R. Levy
Perceiving Age Discrimination in Response to Intergenerational Inequity
Teri A. Garstka, Mary Lee Hummert, and Nyla R. Branscombe
Theoretical Perspectives on Ageism
The Social Separation of Old and Young: A Root of Ageism
Gunhild O. Hagestad and Peter Uhlenberg
Ageism and Age Categorization
Bill Bytheway
Models of the Aging Self
Joel R. Sneed and Susan Krauss Whitbourne
Epilogue
Ageism Across the Lifespan: Towards a Self-Categorization Model of Ageing
Howard Giles and Scott A. Reid
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