Despite workplace gains for women, gender stereotypes continue worldwide. A large study explains how social roles keep them ...

Stereotypes are simplified and often inaccurate ideas about a group of people that can lead to harmful assumptions and reinforce prejudice. These representations, whether seen in media, books, or ...

For as long as Black people have been seen on TV and in films, Hollywood and the larger media landscape have recycled damaging stereotypes and “tropes” that reduce us from fully realized human beings ...

For example, if someone was interested in people’s beliefs about some difference between men and women in general, but only tested these beliefs against data from a convenience sample (like men and ...

Stereotype threat theory provides a novel mechanism through which ‎‎the performance of stigmatized groups can be ‎impaired. The ‎fundamental principle of stereotype threat theory is that groups of ...