Stereotypes are bad. It’s a lesson we all learned in a 4th grade assembly through an excruciatingly uncool performance by a collegiate theater group. But though society does a nice job teaching the dangers of negative stereotypes, characterizations that might be considered “positive” stereotypes tend to elicit less vigilance. Sure, the 4th grade teacher always [...]
Kay, A., Day, M., Zanna, M. & Nussbaum, A. (2012). The Insidious (and ironic) Effects of Positive Stereotypes, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.11.003
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