Publisher Summary This chapter explores important parameters of intergenerational
communication, with a focus on older people being targets of overaccommodation, also …

Age group membership is fluid, as individuals move through different age groups over their
life spans. Yet age groups have the same issues of identity, intergroup stereotyping, and …

Metastereotypes, the stereotypes a person believes that those outside of their group hold of
a social group to which (s) he belongs, have been implicated in problematic intergroup …

With deep roots in the social psychology of language, Howard Giles' communication
accommodation theory (CAT) is, perhaps, the foremost theory guiding theoretical and …

Ample research has explored language attitudes and speaker evaluations, yet it has not
attended to direct incidences of language criticism. This article presents evidence …

Relationship conflict is a pervasive phenomenon in cross-functional project teams. Although
previous studies have demonstrated the dysfunctional effect of relationship conflict, the …

Guided by the theoretical frameworks of communication accommodation theory and conflict
management, this study examines US older participants'(65 or older) written conflict …

With the upsurge of older adults still working, the labour force is becoming increasingly
diverse in age. Age diversity in an organisation can increase the likelihood of …

Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Generations 2016, we tested three hypotheses:(1)
discordances in three intergenerational values (religion, gender role attitudes, and political …

Using a content analytic approach, this study examined young adults' retrospective written
accounts about their perceived communication with family and nonfamily elders in conflict …