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Ageism [1] [2] [3] is a type of discrimination based on one's age, generally used to refer to age based discrimination against elderly people. The term was coined in 1969 by Robert Neil Butler to describe this discrimination, building on the terminology of sexism and racism . [ 4 ]
Adultism is a bias or prejudice against children or youth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been defined as "the power adults have over children", or the abuse thereof, [ 2 ] as well as "prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people", [ 3 ] and "bias towards adults... and the social addiction to adults, including their ideas ...
Presently, there is no international legally binding instrument to protect the human rights of older persons. It is, however, been discussed since 2011 by "The Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing for the Purpose of Strengthening the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons" (mostly referred to as the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, OEWGA) which was established by United Nations ...
Gerontophobia is the hatred or fear of the elderly, or a fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to gerascophobia). The term comes from the Greek γέρων – gerōn , "old man" [ 1 ] and φόβος – phobos , "fear". [ 2 ]
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A memory bias, recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent event", [119] such as the final lawyer's closing argument a jury hears before being dismissed to deliberate. Systematic bias Judgement that arises when targets of differentiating judgement become subject to effects of regression that are not equivalent.
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