Stereotypes and their associated category-based processes have traditionally been considered largely within the context of the negativity of their content and consequences, both among the general public and the scientific community. This review summarizes and integrates extant research on positive stereotypes, which are subjectively favorable beliefs about social groups, and examines their impl...

Stereotypes provide a mechanism for extending the vocabulary of the UML. Present UML-based formalisms for Geographic Information System use the concept of visual stereotypes in order to represent geographic types. This paper extends the expressiveness of stereotypes currently defined for geographic types and describes an algorithm for the computation of visual stereotypes resulting from aggrega...

Following Schmidt and Boland's (1986) method, college student informants sorted a trait set into 1 or more groups with reference to elderly or young adults. Analysis of these data confirmed the existence of multiple stereotypes of both age groups but showed little similarity between stereotypes of the elderly and the young. Other informants made attitude, age, and typicality judgements of perso...

OBJECTIVES Research on age stereotypes suggests that views of older persons are complex and multidimensional. We investigated the positivity or negativity of age stereotypes with respect to different life domains. METHOD A newly developed questionnaire assessing domain-specific age stereotypes was administered to a large sample of adults covering a wide age range. RESULTS Our findings confi...

The stereotyping literature within psychology has grown considerably over the past decade. In large part, this growth can be attributed to progress in understanding the individual mechanisms that give rise to stereotypic thinking. In the current review, the recent psychological literature on stereotypes is reviewed, with particular emphasis given to the cognitive and motivational factors that c...