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Xiong M, Wang F. Gender Effect on Views of Wisdom and Wisdom Levels. Front Psychol 2021; 12:725736. [PMID: 34764912 PMCID: PMC8576258 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Gender differences in wisdom are an important theme in mythology, philosophy, psychology, and daily life. Based on the existing psychological research, consensus and dispute exist between the two genders on the views of wisdom and in the levels of wisdom. In terms of the views of wisdom, the way men and women view wisdom is highly similar, and from the perspectives of both ordinary people and professional researchers of wisdom psychology, wise men and women are extremely similar. Regarding wisdom level, research has revealed that, although significant gender effects exist in the level of overall wisdom, reflective and affective dimension, and interpersonal conflict coping styles, the effect sizes were small, which indicated that these gender differences were not obvious. It would be desirable for future research to combine multiple wisdom measurements, strengthen research on the psychological gender effect of wisdom, and focus on the moderating role of age on the relationship between wisdom and gender.
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- Mimi Xiong
- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Moral Education Research, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Moral Education Research, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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Meier T, Boyd RL, Mehl MR, Milek A, Pennebaker JW, Martin M, Wolf M, Horn AB. Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is "ingenious", female language is "beautiful" - and popular. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0243637. [PMID: 33326456 PMCID: PMC7743969 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The huge power for social influence of digital media may come with the risk of intensifying common societal biases, such as gender and age stereotypes. Speaker's gender and age also behaviorally manifest in language use, and language may be a powerful tool to shape impact. The present study took the example of TED, a highly successful knowledge dissemination platform, to study online influence. Our goal was to investigate how gender- and age-linked language styles-beyond chronological age and identified gender-link to talk impact and whether this reflects gender and age stereotypes. In a pre-registered study, we collected transcripts of TED Talks along with their impact measures, i.e., views and ratios of positive and negative talk ratings, from the TED website. We scored TED Speakers' (N = 1,095) language with gender- and age-morphed language metrics to obtain measures of female versus male, and younger versus more senior language styles. Contrary to our expectations and to the literature on gender stereotypes, more female language was linked to higher impact in terms of quantity, i.e., more talk views, and this was particularly the case among talks with a lot of views. Regarding quality of impact, language signatures of gender and age predicted different types of positive and negative ratings above and beyond main effects of speaker's gender and age. The differences in ratings seem to reflect common stereotype contents of warmth (e.g., "beautiful" for female, "courageous" for female and senior language) versus competence (e.g., "ingenious", "informative" for male language). The results shed light on how verbal behavior may contribute to stereotypical evaluations. They also illuminate how, within new digital social contexts, female language might be uniquely rewarded and, thereby, an underappreciated but highly effective tool for social influence. WC = 286 (max. 300 words).
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- Tabea Meier
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- University Research Priority Program (URPP) “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Löckenhoff CE. Leveraging the Common Model to Inform the Research Agenda on Aging and Wisdom. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2020.1750923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Corinna E. Löckenhoff
- Department of Human Development, Cornell University/Weill Cornell Medicine, Ithaca, New York
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Grossmann I, Weststrate NM, Ardelt M, Brienza JP, Dong M, Ferrari M, Fournier MA, Hu CS, Nusbaum HC, Vervaeke J. The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns. PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/1047840x.2020.1750917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Igor Grossmann
- Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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- UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
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- Art Therapy Psychological Research Centre, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Ayalon L. Are Older Adults Perceived as A Threat to Society? Exploring Perceived Age-Based Threats in 29 Nations. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2020; 74:1256-1265. [PMID: 28961739 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbx107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES The present study adds to the current body of literature by simultaneously examining the public perception of young and old people as posing realistic threats (e.g., to the group's power, resources, and welfare) and symbolic threats (e.g., to one's world view, belief system and values). METHODS The fourth wave of the European Social Survey was administered to individuals from 29 countries. Analysis is based on 56,170 individuals, who had data on the four relevant indicators. The study relied on a latent profile analysis to develop a typology of perceived realistic and symbolic threats to society by younger and older adults. RESULTS A three-profile solution indicated that the perception of older and younger adults as threats to society often co-occurs. Sociodemographic characteristics at the individual-level and the Gini coefficient (e.g., an inequality indicator) at the country-level had differential associations with the profiles identified. CONCLUSIONS The study calls for a more balanced approach which evaluates attitudes toward both younger and older adults as potential sources of threat. Attention should be paid to individual- and national-level characteristics associated with age-based threats (e.g., the perception of a group, defined by its chronological age, as threatening).
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- Liat Ayalon
- Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Gordon JK, Andersen K, Perez G, Finnegan E. How Old Do You Think I Am? Speech-Language Predictors of Perceived Age and Communicative Competence. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2019; 62:2455-2472. [PMID: 31265362 DOI: 10.1044/2019_jslhr-l-19-0025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Purpose Spoken language serves as a primary means of social interaction, but speech and language skills change with age, a potential source of age-related stereotyping. The goals of this study were to examine how accurately age could be estimated from language samples, to determine which speech and language cues were most informative, and to assess the impact of perceived age on judgments of the speakers' communication skills. Method We analyzed narratives from 84 speakers aged 30-89 years to identify age-related differences and compared these differences to factors affecting perceptions of age and communicative competence. Three groups of raters estimated the speakers' ages and judged the quality of their communication: 44 listeners listened to audio-recorded narratives, 51 readers read transcripts of the narratives, and 24 voice raters listened to 10-s samples of speech extracted from one of the narratives. Results Older speakers spoke more slowly but showed minimal linguistic differences compared to younger speakers. Speakers' ages were estimated quite accurately, even from 10-s samples. Estimates were largely based on cues available in the acoustic signal-speech rate and vocal characteristics-so listeners were more accurate than readers. However, an overreliance on these cues also contributed to overestimates of speakers' ages. Communication ratings were not strongly related to perceived age but were influenced by various aspects of speech and language. In particular, speakers who produced longer narratives and spoke more quickly were judged to be better communicators. Conclusion Speakers tend to be judged on relatively superficial aspects of spoken language, in part because age-related change is most evident at these levels. Implications of these findings for age-related theories of stereotyping and speech-language intervention are discussed.
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- Jean K Gordon
- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City
- DeLTA Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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Caines V, Earl JK, Bordia P. Self-Employment in Later Life: How Future Time Perspective and Social Support Influence Self-Employment Interest. Front Psychol 2019; 10:448. [PMID: 30886601 PMCID: PMC6409329 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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For older workers, self-employment is an important alternative to waged employment. Drawing on social learning theory and social cognitive career theory we examine how attitudes toward one's own aging, future time perspective (captured by perceived time left to live) and perceived support from referent individuals predict self-efficacy for entrepreneurship and outcome expectations, influencing self-employment interest. Findings from a sample of professional association members (n = 174, mean age 52.5 years), revealed that an open-ended time perspective relates positively to entrepreneurial self-efficacy, while social support relates positively to outcome expectations. Consistent with social cognitive career theory, entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediated the relationship between future time perspective and interest in self-employment, and outcome expectations mediated the relationship between social support and interest in self-employment. This study extends current career and entrepreneurship theory in several ways. First, the inclusion of age-related psychosocial and sociocultural factors in the study model shed light on the intersection between older age, the contextual environment and development of self-employment interest. Second, the findings support earlier arguments that older entrepreneurship is a social process whereby the social context in which people work and live influences their interest in entrepreneurship, and that entrepreneurial behavior among older people needs to be supported to occur. Finally, the findings suggest the utility of social cognitive career theory in informing the development of self-employment interest in the late career stage. We discuss implications for the career and entrepreneurship literatures as well as practitioners involved in late-career counseling or seeking to promote entrepreneurship for older people.
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- Valerie Caines
- Flinders Business, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Research School of Management, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Giorgi G, Ariza Montes A, Rapisarda V, Campagna M, Garzaro G, Arcangeli G, Mucci N. Work-related stress in the banking sector: a study on an Italian aged population of over 2,000 workers. LA MEDICINA DEL LAVORO 2019; 110:11-21. [PMID: 30794244 PMCID: PMC7810003 DOI: 10.23749/mdl.v110i1.7125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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INTRODUCTION In the European Union, the employment rate for the population in the age group 55-64 years has greatly increased in the last two decades. Companies, especially in sectors such as banking, are looking for new strategies to improve the productivity of workers in this age group. OBJECTIVES This study was conceived with the purpose of exploring the associations between job characteristics that could influence stress and certain organizational aspects in a large population of banking workers. METHODS More than 2,000 workers over 50 years of age of an Italian banking group participated in the study. Work-related stress was measured with the Stress Questionnaire (SQ). Organizational aspects of work were measured with a dedicated scale included in the SQ. Demographic aspects were detected by specific questions. Structural equation modelling was used and correlation coefficients were calculated. RESULTS The results from the structural equation modeling supported the theoretical model. Organizational policies are associated with both stress correlated factors (β=0.468) and perceptions of supervisor support and social support (β=0.710). The perception of both parameters is associated with stress outcomes (β=0.365). The proposed model offered better results than a competitive model, on which a total mediation was tested, rather than a partial one (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS The results highlight the importance of an integrated assessment of the effects of organizational aspects of work and stress factors to implement the protection of physical and mental health. Further research will help to understand more thoroughly if the issues emerged are effectively related to age. This can be assessed through a case-control study that also includes younger workers.
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Oxman TE. Reflections on Aging and Wisdom. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2018; 26:1108-1118. [PMID: 30228055 DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2018.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Revised: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The author experienced an unexpected finding over 30 years ago. Despite many losses, older primary care patients had less psychiatric symptomatology than younger patients. This has led to a long learning and teaching focus on the positive relationship between aging and wisdom. Some recent research challenges this relationship. To deal with this challenge the author reflects on two related but complex questions with which he has been struggling. Is there an adaptive value of aging? If wisdom is more likely with aging, why? He concludes that aging is culturally adaptive and that wisdom is aging's individual and societal adaptive strength.
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- Thomas E Oxman
- Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Community & Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH.
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Gordon JK, Young M, Garcia C. Why do older adults have difficulty with semantic fluency? AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION 2017; 25:803-828. [DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2017.1374328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Jean K. Gordon
- Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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