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Are there any traits that you’re surprised to see associated (or not associated) with older adults?

Paper 1 Table 8.3 on page 276 of your textbook contains a list of personality traits, along with the percentage of people of different age groups who believe these traits to apply to older adults. This is a little complicated, but here’s how it works: Hummert and colleagues (1994) interviewed young, middle-aged, and older adults […]