Social mythologies, like the old saw that "white men can't jump," may in fact have some negative consequences for those being stereotyped. And even if the majority of people do not openly endorse these negative beliefs, recent ...
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Mar 23, 2017
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Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after a confrontation with police during a traffic stop earlier this month in Memphis, has become the latest face in a racial justice and police reform movement fueled by a string ...
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Feb 4, 2023
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From "girls suck at maths" and "men are so insensitive" to "he is getting a bit senile with age" or "black people struggle at university", there's no shortage of common cultural stereotypes about social groups. Chances are ...
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Aug 28, 2018
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Men often appear to have an advantage over women in the workplace, but that is not always the case in female-dominated industries.
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Jun 26, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A newly defined genre of literature, "teen sick-lit," features tear-jerking stories of ill adolescents developing romantic relationships. Although "teen sick-lit" tends to adhere to negative stereotypes of the ...
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Aug 27, 2012
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Interventions targeted at individual students can improve the classroom environment and trigger a second wave of benefits for all classmates, new research shows. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal ...
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Dec 21, 2015
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A new study from Indiana University suggests that gender stereotypes about women's ability in mathematics negatively impact their performance. And in a significant twist, both men and women wrongly believe those stereotypes ...
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Mar 26, 2015
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Hardworking or lazy; trustworthy or dangerous: People often make assumptions about someone's character and personality based solely on how they're dressed.
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Jul 14, 2020
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(Phys.org)—People from China's Uyghur minority are struggling to get higher status, higher paying jobs, which in turn is leading to a forced divide between different ethnic groups, according to a new University of Melbourne ...
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Nov 22, 2012
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Employees over 50 can feel excluded and demotivated in the workplace for various reasons. They feel particularly excluded when they believe that their cognitive abilities decrease with age, as psychologists from the University ...
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Mar 5, 2020
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