Having negative ideas about old people may harm your own health later in life, a longitudinal study suggests.rnYale University social psychologist Becca Levy and colleagues at the National Institute on Aging analyzed data from 386 subjects in the long-running Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. On joining the study, the participants-healthy adults under 50-filled out a questionnaire that asked about "stereotypes" such as whether old people are "absent-minded" or "less intelligent."rnThe researchers found that people with worse-than-average age stereotypes were likely to have heart attacks or strokes at younger ages.
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