Becca Levy
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- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Becca R. Levy is a professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of social gerontology and psychology of aging. She is credited with creating the field of how age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, impact the health of older individuals. The Dean of Columbia School of Public Health describes Levy as "a pioneer" in the "growing body of impressive research showing that our attitudes toward aging affect our health, our resilience in the face of adversity, and our very survival."
Becca Levy's Published Works
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Published Works
- Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (1979) (3626)
- Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging. (2002) (1182)
- Stereotype Embodiment (2009) (856)
- Improving memory in old age through implicit self-stereotyping. (1996) (826)
- Mind matters: cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes. (2003) (777)
- Longitudinal benefit of positive self-perceptions of aging on functional health. (2002) (523)
- Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging. (2004) (512)
- Reducing cardiovascular stress with positive self-stereotypes of aging. (2000) (400)
- Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity (2020) (334)
- Aging free from negative stereotypes: successful memory in China and among the American deaf. (1994) (295)
- Age Stereotypes Held Earlier in Life Predict Cardiovascular Events in Later Life (2009) (295)
- The stereotype-matching effect: greater influence on functioning when age stereotypes correspond to outcomes. (2009) (287)
- The Power of Ageism on Physical Function of Older Persons: Reversibility of Age‐Related Gait Changes (1999) (251)
- Global reach of ageism on older persons’ health: A systematic review (2020) (229)
- To be or Not to be: The Effects of Aging Stereotypes on the Will to Live (2000) (206)
- Memory shaped by age stereotypes over time. (2012) (167)
- Eradication of ageism requires addressing the enemy within. (2001) (160)
- Association between positive age stereotypes and recovery from disability in older persons. (2012) (152)
- Ageism Amplifies Cost and Prevalence of Health Conditions (2018) (143)
- Increasing Negativity of Age Stereotypes across 200 Years: Evidence from a Database of 400 Million Words (2015) (142)
- Aging free from negative stereotypes: successful memory in China and among the American deaf (1994) (141)
- A culture-brain link: Negative age stereotypes predict Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. (2016) (125)
- Subliminal Strengthening (2014) (120)
- Hearing decline predicted by elders' stereotypes. (2006) (105)
- Re-vision of older television characters: A stereotype-awareness intervention (2005) (103)
- Handwriting as a reflection of aging self-stereotypes. (2000) (94)
- Relationship between respiratory mortality and self-perceptions of aging (2005) (94)
- The role of religion and ethnicity in the help seeking of family caregivers of elders with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (1999) (93)
- Physical Recovery after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Positive Age Self-Stereotypes as a Resource (2006) (91)
- Facebook as a site for negative age stereotypes. (2014) (89)
- Effects of Layoffs and Plant Closings on Subsequent Depression Among Older Workers (2008) (85)
- Image of Aging Scale (2004) (82)
- Perceived needs for geriatric education by medical students, internal medicine residents and faculty (2006) (73)
- A chapter a day: Association of book reading with longevity. (2016) (67)
- Resiliency Over Time of Elders' Age Stereotypes After Encountering Stressful Events. (2015) (58)
- Posttraumatic stress disorder and trauma characteristics are correlates of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (2011) (57)
- When parents matter to their adult children: filial reliance associated with parents' depressive symptoms. (2008) (56)
- Age-Stereotype Paradox: Opportunity for Social Change (2017) (50)
- High Prevalence of Elder Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Risk and Resilience Factors (2021) (50)
- Lower prevalence of psychiatric conditions when negative age stereotypes are resisted. (2014) (49)
- Positive age beliefs protect against dementia even among elders with high-risk gene (2018) (49)
- Age attributions and aging health: contrast between the United States and Japan. (2009) (46)
- OPTIMISM AND COPING WITH LOSS IN BEREAVED HIV-INFECTED MEN AND WOMEN (2005) (45)
- The Inner Self of the Japanese Elderly: A Defense against Negative Stereotypes of Aging (1999) (44)
- Higher rates of depression in women: role of gender bias within the family. (2004) (43)
- Retirement as Meaningful: Positive Retirement Stereotypes Associated with Longevity. (2016) (43)
- Spousal Associations Between Frailty and Depressive Symptoms: Longitudinal Findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study (2016) (42)
- The power of labels: Recruiting dementia-affected Chinese American elders and their caregivers (2000) (42)
- Prevalence of and Sex Disparities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an Internally Displaced Sri Lankan Population 6 Months After the 2004 Tsunami (2007) (41)
- Causal Thinking After a Tsunami Wave: Karma Beliefs, Pessimistic Explanatory Style and Health Among Sri Lankan Survivors (2009) (41)
- Influence of African American elders’ age stereotypes on their cardiovascular response to stress (2008) (41)
- Older Persons' Exclusion From Sexually Transmitted Disease Risk-Reduction Clinical Trials (2007) (37)
- Buffer against Cumulative Stress Positive Age Self-Stereotypes Predict Lower Cortisol across 30 Years (2016) (35)
- Residual stigma: psychological distress among the formerly overweight. (2012) (35)
- Effects of Layoffs and Plant Closings on Depression Among Older Workers. (2007) (35)
- Rigidity as a predictor of older persons’ aging stereotypes and aging self-perceptions (2008) (34)
- Survival Advantage Mechanism: Inflammation as a Mediator of Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging on Longevity (2016) (34)
- Improving Attention in Old Age (2001) (31)
- Increased longevity from viewing retirement positively (2012) (29)
- Impact of Perceived Racism on Healthcare Access Among Older Minority Adults. (2019) (27)
- The impact of both spousal caregivers’ and care recipients’ health on relationship satisfaction in the Caregiver Health Effects Study (2019) (27)
- To Love is to Suffer: Older Adults’ Daily Emotional Contagion to Perceived Spousal Suffering (2015) (26)
- Exposure to American culture is associated with premenstrual dysphoric disorder among ethnic minority women. (2011) (26)
- Exclusion of elderly persons from health-risk behavior clinical trials. (2006) (23)
- Health advantages of ethnic density for African American and Mexican American elderly individuals. (2012) (23)
- Self-Acceptance and Interdependence Promote Longevity: Evidence From a 20-year Prospective Cohort Study (2020) (22)
- Active coping shields against negative aging self-stereotypes contributing to psychiatric conditions. (2019) (21)
- When Self-Interest and Age Stereotypes Collide: Elders Opposing Increased Funds for Programs Benefiting Themselves (2005) (19)
- Influence of Culture and Age on Control Beliefs: The Missing Link of Interdependence (2006) (19)
- Benefit of Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment for Transgender Elders: Later-Life Alignment of Mind and Body. (2019) (18)
- Pettiness: Conceptualization, measurement and cross-cultural differences (2018) (17)
- Older Age Associated with Mental Health Resiliency in Sexual Minority US Veterans. (2017) (16)
- Lifetime discrimination associated with greater likelihood of premenstrual dysphoric disorder. (2011) (16)
- Impact of explanatory style and age stereotypes on health across the life span. (2011) (16)
- Husbands’ and Wives’ Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms: Longitudinal Findings from the Cardiovascular Health Study (2015) (15)
- Opposing Trends of Religious Attendance and Religiosity in Predicting Elders’ Functional Recovery after an Acute Myocardial Infarction (2006) (15)
- Influence of Valentine's Day and Halloween on birth timing. (2011) (15)
- Impact of Media-based Negative and Positive Age Stereotypes on Older Individuals’ Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (14)
- Health advantage for black women: patterns in pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (2010) (14)
- From serving in the military to serving loved ones: unique experiences of older veteran caregivers. (2014) (13)
- The Role of Structural Ageism in Age Beliefs and Health of Older Persons. (2022) (12)
- Positive views of aging reduce risk of developing later-life obesity (2018) (12)
- Preservation of Temporal Skills in Alzheimer's Disease (1997) (11)
- Conscious Versus Unconscious Levels of Aging Self-Stereotypes: Author's Reply (2003) (10)
- Successful Aging in Older US Veterans: Results From the 2019-2020 National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. (2020) (10)
- Gender differences in short-term cardiovascular effects of giving and receiving support for health concerns in marriage. (2019) (9)
- Accelerated DNA Methylation Aging in U.S. Military Veterans: Results From the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study. (2019) (9)
- Association Between Negative Age Stereotypes and Accelerated Cellular Aging: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Older Adults (2016) (9)
- A psychological predictor of elders' driving performance: social-comparisons on the road. (2013) (8)
- Handbook of the Psychology of Aging: Eighth Edition (2015) (8)
- Intergenerational differences in the reporting of elders’ anxiety (2002) (8)
- DISCLOSURE OF HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCES: REASONS, ATTRIBUTIONS, AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS (2006) (8)
- Positive Aging Views in the General Population Predict Better Long-Term Cognition for Elders in Eight Countries (2018) (8)
- Heritability of depressive symptoms: a case study using a multilevel approach (2009) (6)
- Preserved risk-taking skills in old age (2003) (5)
- Reversing Disability in Old Age (1996) (4)
- When Culture Influences Genes: Positive Age Beliefs Amplify the Cognitive-Aging Benefit of APOE ϵ2. (2020) (4)
- RESPONSE TO "AGEISM IN GERONTOLOGICAL LANGUAGE" (2000) (3)
- Wanted Dead or Alive (2004) (3)
- 'Drawing on Wisdom to Cope with Adversity:' A Systematic Review Protocol of Older Adults' Mental and Psychosocial Health During Acute Respiratory Disease Propagated-Type Epidemics and Pandemics (COVID-19, SARS-CoV, MERS, and Influenza). (2020) (3)
- Reactivity to a Spouse’s Interpersonal Suffering in Late Life Marriage (2015) (2)
- Protective effects of neighborhood community factors on elder abuse in India (2020) (2)
- Negative Age Stereotypes Associated with Older Persons' Rejection of COVID‐19 Hospitalization (2020) (2)
- Using outcome measures to provide excellence in Alzheimer care (1998) (2)
- The Intersectionality of Ageism (2020) (1)
- Idealization of Youthfulness Predicts Worse Recovery Among Older Individuals (2019) (1)
- Impact of structural ageism on greater violence against older persons: a cross-national study of 56 countries (2021) (1)
- PERCEPTIONS OF AGING: DIFFERENT CONCEPTS, LIFE-SPAN APPROACHES AND PREDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS (2018) (1)
- THE SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE OF READING BOOKS (2017) (1)
- Implicit and Explicit Dehumanization of Older Family Members: Novel Determinants of Elder Abuse Proclivity. (2022) (1)
- SA-14 Increased Life Expectancy from Positive Perceptions of Retirement (2011) (0)
- Policy Series: Ageism: Outcomes, Interventions, Future Directions (2021) (0)
- Impact of Structural Ageism on Greater Violence Against Older Persons: A Cross-National Study of 56 Countries (2021) (0)
- Impact of Media-Based Age Stereotypes on Older Individuals’ Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (0)
- AGEISM IN THE UNITED STATES AS A PARADOX AND OPPORTUNITY FOR SOCIAL CHANGE (2018) (0)
- Impact of Age Views on Cognition: Experimental, Longitudinal, and Ecological Momentary Findings (2020) (0)
- ADULTS' VIEWS OF AGING AS AN UNDERESTIMATED RISK FACTOR FOR HEALTH, WELL-BEING, AND LONGEVITY (2022) (0)
- Ageism and Its Impact on Older Persons’ Health (2020) (0)
- Role of Positive Age Beliefs in Recovery From Mild Cognitive Impairment Among Older Persons (2023) (0)
- Implicit-Age-Stereotype Intervention Subliminal Strengthening : Improving Older Individuals ' Physical Function Over Time With an (2014) (0)
- Structural and Individual Ageism Predicts Elder Abuse Proclivity and Perpetration (2021) (0)
- PROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL COHESION ON ELDER ABUSE IN INDIAN OLDER ADULTS (2019) (0)
- PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM: THE INTERSECTION OF AGE AND RACE: IMPACT ON REIMAGINING AGING (2022) (0)
- Elder Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevalence, Risk, and Protective Factors (2021) (0)
- HealthAdvantagesof EthnicDensityforAfrican AmericanandMexican AmericanElderly (2012) (0)
- Dehumanization of Older Family Members: Novel Determinants of Elder Abuse Proclivity by Caregivers (2021) (0)
- Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Older US Military Veterans: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study (2023) (0)
- Laughter and short-term blood pressure reactivity in middle-aged and older adult spousal support interactions. (2021) (0)
- Stereotype Embodiment Theory (2020) (0)
- IMPACT OF RACISM ON MINORITY ELDERS NOT RECEIVING HEALTHCARE: MEDIATING ROLE OF POOR DOCTOR-PATIENT COMMUNICATION (2018) (0)
- Positive Age Beliefs Lead to Lower Dementia Risk Even Among Older Persons With High-Risk Gene (2020) (0)
- When Harry Met Sally: Older Adult Spouses' First Encounter Reminiscing and Well-being. (2022) (0)
- CUMULATIVE STRESS BUFFER: POSITIVE AGING SELF-STEREOTYPES PREDICT LOWER CORTISOL ACROSS THIRTY YEARS (2017) (0)
- Societal impact on older persons' chronic pain: Roles of age stereotypes, age attribution, and age discrimination. (2023) (0)
- Ageism is a major problem in our society. (2001) (0)
- Associations of pre- and post-cancer depression with end-of-life cancer care intensity. (2016) (0)
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