
What you know about aging is probably wrong, with Manfred Diehl, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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The Dangers of Negative Age Stereotypes
Researchers have found that believing negative aging stereotypes can actually harm people's physical and mental health as they get older. There is plenty of evidence that when people, when we activate, for example, either in an experiment or through a questionnaire, people's negative age stereotypes that it affects their behavior. Even people there will to live becomes shortcut to some extent.
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