Images Shape Attitudes About Aging
Images can engage audiences by evoking emotions, facilitating memory, and transmitting cultural meaning. We exposed participants to one of 13 image categories or a control condition with no images. Images should depict older adults engaged with others or their surroundings. Use images that depict older adults as competent, confident, and capable. Use images that depict older people in positive controls and engaged in positive activities. Its also important to remember that images are rarely displayed in isolation; they are usually accompanied by text....