In his 1922 book "Public Opinion," journalist Walter Lippmann introduced the word "stereotype" as a metaphor for a mental picture people form based on cultural notions. For example, some stereotypes ...

This article was updated at 10:20 AM ET on Nov. 2, 2011. Editor's Note: Due to an ongoing investigation into the credibility of Diederik Stapel's research conducted at Tilburg University, the ...

Healthy relationships are built on trust, respect, and open communication. Unfortunately, sometimes people use emotional manipulation tactics to gain control or bend their partners to their will.

Meghan Markle returned to her Spotify podcast “Archetypes” on Tuesday and in an episode called “The Demystification of the Dragon Lady” tackled the “toxic stereotyping” of Asian women in movies like ...

The TCA panel for new CBS series 2 Broke Girls didn’t go quite as expected today. Show creator and executive producer Michael Patrick King was surprised by the criticism thrown at him during the ...

Workplace stereotyping often goes far beyond race, sex, national origin, color and religion as the bases for unfair generalizations. Stereotyping among employees includes statements about employees ...

Executive Summary: On February 26, 2019, the Missouri Supreme Court extended legal protections against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in two separate cases—one dealing ...

There’s one Christmas that I’ll always remember. My mother’s contemporary 90’s living room of brass elephants and white leather turned into a sea of Pepto-Bismol Pink courtesy of Mattel. Between my ...

A "sex stereotyping" claim arises when an employee alleges that his or her employer engaged in discrimination because the employee failed to adhere to "sex stereotypes" for men or women. A "sex ...

On 22nd June 2020, the Indian High Court of the State of Karnataka while granting anticipatory bail to a person accused of rape, observed that it is “unbecoming of an Indian woman” to “fall asleep” ...

A day after Israel celebrated the 70 th anniversary of its founding, we can read that Syracuse University suspended an engineering fraternity for a “racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic” video. On that ...

A messy or chaotic environment causes people to stereotype others, probably out of a need to control and organize the situation around them, new research suggests. "We are very dependent on the ...