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Alison L. Chasteen

Alison L. Chasteen

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
6756
World Ranking
9434
National Ranking
641

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Alison L. Chasteen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, whose work primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including neuropsychology and physiological psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, health, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research explores several main topics, such as aging and gerontology, social and intergroup psychology, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, health disparities and outcomes, cultural differences and values, as well as optimism, hope, and well-being.

Chasteen has contributed to various academic journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

Among notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Chasteen are:

  • "Overlooked and Underestimated: Experiences of Ageism in Young, Middle-Aged, and Older Adults" (2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)
  • "Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity" (2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)
  • "Ageism and COVID-19: what does our society's response say about us?" (2020, Age and Ageing)
  • "Ageism in the time of COVID-19" (2021, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations)
  • "Using Twitter to Examine Stigma Against People With Dementia During COVID-19: Infodemiology Study" (2022, JMIR Aging)

Chasteen collaborates frequently with other researchers, with a notable list of co-authors including:

  • Joel M. Le Forestier (10 co-authored publications)
  • Sarah Fraser (9 co-authored publications)
  • Juanita-Dawne Bacsu (8 co-authored publications)
  • Sherry Dahlke (8 co-authored publications)
  • Kathleen F. Hunter (8 co-authored publications)

In recognition of their contributions to the field of psychology, Alison L. Chasteen was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity.

    Liat Ayalon;Alison Chasteen;Manfred Diehl;Becca R. Levy

  • How Feelings of Stereotype Threat Influence Older Adults’ Memory Performance

    Alison L. Chasteen;Sudipa Bhattacharyya;Michelle Horhota;Raymond Tam

  • Ageism and COVID-19: what does our society’s response say about us?

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  • Implementation Intentions and Facilitation of Prospective Memory

    Alison L. Chasteen;Denise C. Park;Norbert Schwarz

  • The ironic impact of activists: Negative stereotypes reduce social change influence

    Nadia Y. Bashir;Penelope Lockwood;Alison L. Chasteen;Daniel Nadolny

  • Effects of hearing and vision impairments on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Kate Dupuis;M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller;Alison L Chasteen;Veronica Marchuk

  • Stereotypes as dominant responses: on the "social facilitation" of prejudice in anticipated public contexts.

    Alan J. Lambert;B. Keith Payne;Larry L. Jacoby;Lara M. Shaffer

  • Rapid aimed limb movements: age differences and practice effects in component submovements.

    Jay Pratt;Alison L. Chasteen;Richard A. Abrams

  • The Ambivalent Ageism Scale: Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Benevolent and Hostile Ageism.

    Lindsey A. Cary;Alison L. Chasteen;Jessica Remedios

  • The Activation of Aging Stereotypes in Younger and Older Adults

    Alison L. Chasteen;Norbert Schwarz;Denise C. Park

  • Loyal Deviance: Testing the Normative Conflict Model of Dissent in Social Groups

    Dominic J Packer;Alison L Chasteen

  • The moderating role of age-group identification and perceived threat on stereotype threat among older adults.

    Sonia K. Kang;Alison L. Chasteen

  • Your mistakes are mine: Self-other overlap predicts neural response to observed errors

    Sonia K. Kang;Jacob B. Hirsh;Alison L. Chasteen

  • Thinking of God Moves Attention

    Alison L. Chasteen;Donna C. Burdzy;Jay Pratt

  • Age and regulatory focus determine preferences for health-related role models.

    Penelope Lockwood;Alison L. Chasteen;Carol Wong

  • Beyond the double-jeopardy hypothesis: Assessing emotion on the faces of multiply-categorizable targets of prejudice

    Sonia K. Kang;Alison L. Chasteen

  • Adult Age Differences in the Time Course of Inhibition of Return

    Alan D. Castel;Alison L. Chasteen;Charles T. Scialfa;Jay Pratt

  • Ageism in the time of COVID-19

    Hannah J Swift;Alison L Chasteen

  • Private vs Public Expressions of Racial Prejudice

    Alan J. Lambert;Stephanie Cronen;Alison L. Chasteen;Brian Lickel

  • Perceptions of Disadvantage Versus Conventionality: Political Values and Attitudes Toward the Elderly Versus Blacks

    Alan J. Lambert;Alison L. Chasteen

  • Impressions at the intersection of ambiguous and obvious social categories: Does gay + Black = likable?

    Jessica D. Remedios;Alison L. Chasteen;Nicholas O. Rule;Jason E. Plaks

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Pratt
Jay Pratt University of Toronto
M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller
M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller University of Toronto
Richard A. Abrams
Richard A. Abrams Washington University in St. Louis
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas
Alan D. Castel
Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas O. Rule
Nicholas O. Rule University of Toronto
Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University
Charles T. Scialfa
Charles T. Scialfa University of Calgary
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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