Hung S, Giles H, Moody J
Psychology Department University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1991;33(4):269-77. doi: 10.2190/1UV0-UYQL-7AQV-V6UN.
Age labels may lead to the seeking of age-stereotypic information from target individuals. Using Carver and de la Garza's information-seeking procedure (which asked respondents to judge the relative importance of various kinds of information they would glean from drivers involved in an automobile accident for assigning accident responsibility), but extending it to a wider life span (16 to 91 years of age) and to both genders, we generalized earlier findings to a similar undergraduate sample (n = 437) in another country. Also demonstrated for the first time is the fact that ageist information-seeking across the life span was independent of the driver's gender, the participant's age, and the participant's gender. Specifically, participants wanted to know from younger drivers about their driving conduct (whether they had been drunk and speeding), and from older drivers about their capacity for driving (mental competence, vision, and health). The seeking of environmental information (car safety and road conditions) did not vary with the age of driver in any systematic way.
年龄标签可能会导致从目标个体那里寻求符合年龄刻板印象的信息。我们采用了卡弗和德拉加尔萨的信息寻求程序（该程序要求受访者判断他们从卷入汽车事故的司机那里收集到的各类信息对于确定事故责任的相对重要性），但将其扩展到更广泛的寿命范围（16至91岁）以及男女两性，我们将早期的研究结果推广到了另一个国家的类似本科样本（n = 437）。首次证明的事实是，在整个寿命范围内的年龄歧视性信息寻求与司机的性别、参与者的年龄以及参与者的性别无关。具体而言，参与者想从年轻司机那里了解他们的驾驶行为（是否醉酒和超速），从年长司机那里了解他们的驾驶能力（心理能力、视力和健康状况）。对环境信息（汽车安全和道路状况）的寻求并未以任何系统的方式随司机年龄而变化。
