Responses on a semantic differential questionnaire indicated that 12-year-olds had formed stereotypes about the effects of alcohol on adults and that these stereotypes were generally negative.

Numerous discoveries regarding stereotypes have been uncovered by utilizing techniques and methods developed by cognitive psychologists. The present study continues this tradition by borrowing psychophysiological techniques used for the study of memory and language, and applying them to the study of stereotypes. In this study, participants were primed with either the gender category 'Women' or ...

In the present research, consisting of 2 correlational studies (N = 616) including a representative U.S. sample and 2 experiments (N = 350), the authors investigated how stereotypes and emotions shape behavioral tendencies toward groups, offering convergent support for the behaviors from intergroup affect and stereotypes (BIAS) map framework. Warmth stereotypes determine active behavioral tende...

In the past 40 years, the proportion of women in science courses and careers has dramatically increased in some nations but not in others. Our research investigated how national differences in women’s science participation related to gender-science stereotypes that associate science with men more than women. Data from !350,000 participants in 66 nations indicated that higher female enrollment i...

Two studies apply intergroup image theory to better understand divergent interethnic images and to highlight the important role of intergroup context and perceived intergroup relations in shaping the content of social stereotypes. Image theory hypothesizes that specific interethnic stereotypes arise from specific patterns of perceived intergroup competition, relative power, and relative cultura...

This article presents the development and validation of the aging stereotypes and exercise scale (ASES), which measures different dimensions of aging stereotypes in the exercise domain. Drawing on past research on older adults' perceived barriers to exercise, these dimensions include stereotypes about positive and negative exercise outcomes for older adults and about older adults' psychological...

Automatic model transformations can be regarded as the main element of model driven software development. For models created with the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) the task of defining transformations is believed to have been accompanied with creation of auxiliary elements that allow tackling the problems of ambiguity of UML. One of such auxiliary elements can be a stereotype. Ster...

This paper proposes to use the discriminant analysis technique as a machine learning method to adjust memberships of stereotypes, based on the user’s in-depth, task-related knowledge contained in the user models. The paper reports an empirical study on the user stereotypes of information retrieval (IR) systems. The participants were first assigned into stereotypes based on their self-reported c...

Why do consensually shared group stereotypes have the contents that they do? A social-evolutionary perspective suggests that the emergent contents of stereotypes are influenced by the contents of interpersonal communications, which themselves may be influenced by individuals’ motives and goals. Three experiments tested hypotheses drawn from this perspective. In all experiments, participants in ...