Laughing off the Stereotypes: Age and Aging in Seniors’ Online Sex-Related Humor | Zendy

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Laughing off the Stereotypes: Age and Aging in Seniors’ Online Sex-Related Humor

Author(s) -

Galit Nimrod,

Liza Berdychevsky

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnx032

Subject(s) - psychology , human sexuality , depiction , distancing , stereotype (uml) , situational ethics , identity (music) , social psychology , representation (politics) , developmental psychology , gender studies , medicine , sociology , covid-19 , aesthetics , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , politics , political science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law

Focusing on sex, the most salient topic featured in ageist jokes, this study aims at exploring the extent to which seniors' own humor reflects common ageist stereotypes or rather echoes contemporary consumer society representations of seniors' sexuality.

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