It’s an age-old question.
Researchers have found perceptions about age differ wildly between generations, with senior citizens possibly suffering from “age-group disassociation” when they insist that they’re not yet elderly.
Scholars from the University of Berlin, in collaboration with academics at Stanford University, the University of Luxembourg and the University of Greifswald, Germany, examined responses from 14,056 Germans to prompts about aging, collected between 1996 and 2021. The study was published in the journal Psychology and Aging.
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