Increasing Negativity of Age Stereotypes across 200 Years: Evidence from a Database of 400 Million Words
Ng R, Allore HG, Trentalange M, Monin JK, Levy BR. Increasing Negativity of Age Stereotypes across 200 Years: Evidence from a Database of 400 Million Words. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0117086. PMID: 25675438, PMCID: PMC4326131, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117086.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAge stereotypesNegative age stereotypesMedicalization of agingNegativityAmerican EnglishWordsStereotypesComputational linguisticsSocietal levelPotential explanationOlder personsUpward trajectoryCollocatesStrong associationHistorical ThesaurusEnglishLinguisticsPrevious studiesCorpusPersonsMedicalizationSupport