The view of a stereotype as a fixed set of attributes associated with a social group comes from the seminal experimental psychology research by Katz and Braly (1933). One hundred students of Princeton ...

Source: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34951. Stereotypes have a bad reputation, and for good reasons.

For example, if someone was interested in people’s beliefs about some difference between men and women in general, but only tested these beliefs against data from a convenience sample (like men and ...

Stanford University psychologist Claude M. Steele made headlines in 1995 with a study that introduced the phrase “stereotype threat” into the national lexicon. Put simply, it’s the idea that people ...

The stereotypes we hold can influence our brain's visual system, prompting us to see others' faces in ways that conform to these stereotypes, neuroscientists have found. The stereotypes we hold can ...

The Asian American health narrative is situated within the complex interplay of racialized history, immigration patterns, and policies regarding Asians in the United States—a dynamic that has ...

Word association: “Sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of”. (Courtesy: Jessica Rowson, IOP) By Sarah Tesh about the International Conference on Women in Physics in ...

In an annual ritual, hundreds of thousands of students took the SAT this spring as they made their first steps toward applying to college. But they were not the only ones being tested. Sprinkled among ...

Hollywood has a long history of shaping how we see different cultures. Sadly, when it comes to Mexicans, the film industry ...