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Belief in Generational Stereotypes: Why There Is a There There

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2015

Ronald E. Riggio  and
Karan Saggi
Ronald E. Riggio*
Affiliation:
Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
Karan Saggi
Affiliation:
Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Leadership Institute, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711. E-mail: [email protected]
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Belief in generational differences is nothing new. In ancient times, generational differences were seen as a threat to productivity, and efforts were made to change them. Bertman (1976) writes, “as early as the twenty-fifth century BC, the older generation in authoritarian Egypt had to ‘work at it’ to mold the younger generation in its own image.” Yet, Costanza and Finkelstein (2015) point out that “there is minimal empirical evidence actually supporting generationally based differences” and “no sufficient explanation for why such differences should even exist.” One explanation for the prevailing belief in generation-based differences is systematic biases in social perception.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 340 - 342
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2015 

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