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Mind Matters: Cognitive and Physical Effects of Aging Self-Stereotypes

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Address correspondence to Becca R. Levy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034. E-mail: Becca.Levy{at}yale.edu

In the first part of this article, a wide range of research is drawn upon to describe the process by which aging stereotypes are internalized in younger individuals and then become self-stereotypes when individuals reach old age. The second part consists of a review of the author's cross-cultural, experimental, and longitudinal research that examines the cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes. The final section presents suggestions for future research relating to aging self-stereotypes.

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