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Ohio State University
Obituary photos suggest growing bias against aging faces
June 11th, 2009
A new study that looked at obituary photographs published in one metropolitan newspaper suggests that Americans may have become more biased toward youthful appearance, particularly for women. The study found that the number of obituary photographs showing the deceased at a much younger age than when he or she died more than doubled between 1967 and 1997. And women were more than twice as likely as men to have an obituary photo from when they were much younger. In 1967, about 17 percent of the obituary photographs surveyed in the The Plain Dealer (a daily newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio) were "age-inappropriate" – meaning they showed...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-11)
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