Table 2.

General and personal views on aging before and after the age simulation (study 1)

	Mpre	SDpre	Mpost	SDpost	t	p	Cohen’s d [95% CI]
General views on aging
Negative views	2.08	.58	2.27	.58	− 4.37	.000	− .39 [− .57; − .21]
Positive views	2.28	.51	2.13	.54	3.38	.001	.30 [ .12; .48]
Personal views on aging
Loss-related views	2.28	.66	2.43	.65	− 3.05	.003	− .27 [− .45; − .09]
Gain-related views	2.44	.51	2.23	.59	4.96	.000	.44 [ .26; .63]

N = 126

General views (“many old people are…”) were assessed on a scale from 0 = strongly disagree to 4 = strongly agree; subscales: negative views and positive views

Personal view on aging (“aging means to me…”) was assessed on a scale from 0 = strongly disagree to 4 = strongly agree; subscales: loss-related views and gain-related views