Do stereotypes about religious people undermine their performance in certain tests? Studies have found Christians tend to underperform non-Christians when it comes to tests of logical ability. There ...

As much as annoying uncles and hack comedians love them, stereotypes are generally not based on anything more than anecdotal evidence. However, much like weeds or plastic tossed out in the wild, they ...

Source: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34951. Stereotypes have a bad reputation, and for good reasons.

Stereotype threat is one of the most famous and influential phenomena in all of psychology. The famous paper (Steele & Aronson, 1995) unveiling the phenomenon has been cited over 5000 times, according ...

Gender stereotypes are sticky, and even in virtual worlds, they carry over in unexpected ways. According to Motherboard, new research suggests that people carry assumptions about gender with them ...

Stereotype threat occurs when members of a group underperform as a result of (a) their consciousness of a negative stereotype related to their membership in said group and (b) a desire not to conform ...

Imagine you get a call one day informing you that you’ve landed the lead role in a world-renowned film franchise. Perhaps that hasn’t happened to you lately, but this is exactly the position that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve all heard them, and we’ve all done it. Even the most politically correct among us has thought at least one of the ...