The Expectation Gap and the Stereotype of the Stereotype: Images of Old People

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The presence or absence of personal well-being is usually closely related to the congruence between what is expected by an individual as appropriate for him and what he perceives as actually happening to him. Images supposedly reflecting the well-being of old people often fail to reflect the expectations. The paper applies an expanded concept of the stereotype to recent data and suggests that through appropriate expectations old people are contributing to their own well-being.

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