Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Bern in Switzerland have conducted the first cross-temporal, multinational study to compare views of gender using data collected 30 years ...

To stereotype a person is to locate him in a category that forbids recognition of his individuality. It gives preference to the fictional over the real, the abstract over the concrete. Hence, it is an ...

Play it cool. Keep it breezy. Treat 'em mean. Don't reply straight away. Be aloof. Be distant. Be hard to get. These are the rules you need to follow in order to be "The Cool Girl" — a prevalent ...

As much as annoying uncles and hack comedians love them, stereotypes are generally not based on anything more than anecdotal evidence. However, much like weeds or plastic tossed out in the wild, they ...

As explicit discrimination has receded in recent decades, those who study prejudice have had to grapple with a difficult question: Why do some minority groups continue to perform worse than others on ...

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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.

Imagine you get a call one day informing you that you’ve landed the lead role in a world-renowned film franchise. Perhaps that hasn’t happened to you lately, but this is exactly the position that ...

On Monday afternoon, the BBC Newsbeat tweeted and deleted a very awkward tweet that read: "Black people and fried chicken — is there any truth in it?" The tweet linked to a video focused on ...

Eighteen-year-old Muslim Somali refugee Saida Dahir is an activist and hopes to inspire as a spoken word artist. Her debut poetry album is The Walking Stereotype. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

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.