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SUBMITTER: Chan W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3514646 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of personality and social psychology 20121022 6
Age trajectories for personality traits are known to be similar across cultures. To address whether stereotypes of age groups reflect these age-related changes in personality, we asked participants in 26 countries (N = 3,323) to rate typical adolescents, adults, and old persons in their own country. Raters across nations tended to share similar beliefs about different age groups; adolescents were seen as impulsive, rebellious, undisciplined, preferring excitement and novelty, whereas old people ...[more]