Psychology behind generational gap: Why do old people always complain about millennials

Some people believe that the younger generations have changed the culture of the older generations

Culture clashes and misunderstandings are a part of the human condition. Each generation has its own unique set of ideas and behaviours that distinguish them from the previous one. For instance, they embrace new technologies and styles.

Some people believe that the younger generations have changed the culture of the older generations. They have also been criticized for being out of touch and old-fashioned. On the other hand, older generations have been very critical of the youth culture, labelling it as an affront to their own traditions.

This is an amusing commentary on the increasing cultural and technological differences between the old and the young. It shows that the young will eventually become the old and the new will eventually clash.

The "Kids these days" syndrome

Psychologists have identified two possible explanations for why people tend to be more prone to criticizing the younger generations. One of these is the "kids these days effect." In studies involving over 3,000 Americans, Jonathan Schooler and John Protzko assessed the participants' intelligence, authoritarian tendencies, and enthusiasm for reading.

The researchers concluded that people tend to believe that the younger generations are less capable of performing at their best. They also believe that children are less likely to excel in certain traits.

Ingrained prejudice about generation Z

Throughout their lives, adults have been criticizing kids the same way: They're lazy, entitled, and have a tendency to act in self-serving ways. It's not surprising then that people assume that kids today are worse than those in the past.

This behavior is considered to be a prejudice, and it's not a trivial question. If people were to make the same claims about children and young people, they would be very angry.

Memory of past deeply coloured in present

Human memory is made using a type of bias known as presentism, which occurs when we take pieces of the past and put them into our memories of the present. To make a judgment about the youth of today, we have to try to remember how they used to be. However, we don't use the information that's available to us today to make a judgment about the young people. Instead, we rely on the information that's already been given to us.

Another theory is that people tend to believe that the past was better than the present. This belief could be related to the cultural trope that kids are always better than the old.