Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Bern in Switzerland have conducted the first cross-temporal, ...

You know that meme that’s always popping up on gay Instagram, the one about how “If his room looks like this”—this being a dingy, menacing cell with an uncovered mattress on the floor, dirty clothes ...

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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Stereotype threat theory provides a novel mechanism through which ‎‎the performance of stigmatized groups can be ‎impaired. The ‎fundamental principle of stereotype threat theory is that groups of ...

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 ...

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.

Even narratives that seem beneficial can actually be harmful. Take the “model minority” stereotype often applied to Asian Americans. This image hurts everyone. For instance, some white (and other) ...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, recently addressed the stereotype of the “angry Black woman” in the latest episode of her podcast, “Archetypes.” The racial stereotype that paints and interprets Black ...