ZUMBA

The ZUMBA lab is focused on multiple approaches to considering the role of the perception of age in the workplace, including but not limited to age stereotyping, discrimination, bias, metastereotypes, prescriptive age stereotypes, multiple conceptualizations of age, age identification, and the intersection of age and other characteristics.

Most Recent Publications

Finkelstein, L. M. (2020). Pandemic ponderings on the limited lens of our age stereotyping research: Considering privilege and racism. Work, Aging and Retirement, 6, 251-253.

Finkelstein, L., Voyles, E., Thomas, C., & Zacher, H. (2020). A daily diary study of reactions to age metastereotypes. Work, Aging and Retirement, 6, 28-45.

Finkelstein, L., Hanrahan, E., & Thomas, C. (2018).  An expanded view of age bias in the workplace. In K. Shultz and G. Adams (Eds.) Aging and Work in the 21st Century (2nd Ed.), (p. 59 – 101). Hillsdale, NJ:  Lawrence Erlbaum.

Contact Us

Lisa Finkelstein, Ph.D.
815-753-0439
lisaf@niu.edu
Psychology-Computer Science Building
Office: room 571
Lab: room 30

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