Why Old People are Mean
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6 min readApr 14, 2022
I took the class, Adult Development and Aging, from Professor Kinderman at Portland State University. He had wanted to be a geologist but couldn’t do the math, so he became a psychology professor. I knew how he felt. I became a lawyer for the same reason.
Dr. Kinderman taught a lesson about stereotypes. They exist, he asserted, because there is some truth to them. They are dangerous because they don’t contain enough…
