Beyond stereotypes

Moving beyond Stereotypes of Empathy.

Most theorists agree that empathy describes multiple distinct but related processes through which people respond to others’ emotions. These include an ‘affective’ component – vicariously taking on others’ feelings – a ‘cognitive’ component – reasoning about others’ emotions – and a ‘motivational’ component – desiring for others’ emotional states to improve. Psychologists variably name these pie...

Pacifism and Just War: Beyond the Stereotypes

Trust beyond reputation: A computational trust model based on stereotypes

Models of computational trust support users in taking decisions. They are commonly used to guide users’ judgements in online auction sites; or to determine quality of contributions in Web 2.0 sites. However, most existing systems require historical information about the past behavior of the specific agent being judged. In contrast, in real life, to anticipate and to predict a stranger’s actions...

A Status Account of Gender Stereotypes: Beyond Communality and Agency

Women’s lower status relative to men can account for people’s differential attribution to women and men, of the constructs of the Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ; Spence, Helmreich, & Holahan, 1979). Ratings in all three studies were made on the EPAQ scales. In Study 1a, participants rated their perceptions of the stereotypes of women and of men. In Study 1b, participants repor...

Beyond Racial Stereotypes: Subversive Subtexts in Cabin in the Sky

Title: BEYOND RACIAL STEREOTYPES: SUBVERSIVE SUBTEXTS IN CABIN IN THE SKY Kate Marie Weber, M.A., 2008 Directed by: Dr. Richard King, Associate Professor of Musicology The 1943 film Cabin in the Sky holds an important place in cinematic history as one of the first “all-Negro” pictures produced by a major Hollywood studio. The movie musical reflects a transitional period in American racial polit...