Combatting Linguistic Stereotyping and Prejudice by Evoking Stereotypes

Stereotypes And Stereotyping: A Moral Analysis

Stereotypes are false or misleading generalizations about groups held in a manner that renders them largely, though not entirely, immune to counterevidence. In doing so, stereotypes powerfully shape the stereotyper's perception of stereotyped groups, seeing the stereotypic characteristics when they are not present, failing to see the contrary of· those characteristics when they are,. and genera...

The semantic representation of prejudice and stereotypes.

We use a theory of semantic representation to study prejudice and stereotyping. Particularly, we consider large datasets of newspaper articles published in the United States, and apply latent semantic analysis (LSA), a prominent model of human semantic memory, to these datasets to learn representations for common male and female, White, African American, and Latino names. LSA performs a singula...

Implicit stereotyping and prejudice and the primed Stroop task

In recent years, stereotype theorizing has been dominated by the social cognitive approach (Park & Hastie, 1987; Schneider, 1991). This viewpoint has emphasized the importance of social categorization to the process of stereotyping and its researchers have attempted to understand not only the antecedents and consequences of categorization but also the link between categorization and stereotypin...

Contributions of Fmri to the Study of Prejudice and Stereotyping

Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination: Theoretical and Empirical Overview

This chapter has two main objectives: to review influential ideas and findings in the literature and to outline the organization and content of the volume. The first part of the chapter lays a conceptual and empirical foundation for other chapters in the volume. Specifically, the chapter defines and distinguishes the key concepts of prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination, highlighting how b...