Accuracy: A neglected component of stereotype research.

Abstract

Silent False Assumption No. 5: "The stereotypes concerning characteristics of cultural and racial groups are entirely false." Suggested Correction No. 5: "The stereotypes concerning characteristics of cultural and racial groups are a combination of truth and falsehood." (Gustav Ichheiser, 1970, p. 76) n the past quarter century, research in cognitive and social psychology I has focused largely on perceptual error and bias (e.g., Bar-Tal, Graumann, Kruglanski,

Mental Health Stereotypes About Gay Men

“…Thus, although stereotypes can be thought of as consisting of attributes that are typical or common among members of a social group (e.g., "Most gay men are depressed," Ashmore & Del Boca, 1986), researchers usually either implicitly or explicitly define a stereotype as consisting of attributes that differentiate between social groups (e.g., "Gay men are depressed more often than straight men," see . For example, McCauley and Stitt (1978) defined stereotypes as "predictions that distinguish the stereotyped group from others" (p. 929), and Ottati and Lee (1995) defined stereotypes as "characteristics of a social group [that] are implicitly comparative" (p. 31). As such, stereotypes do not need to be representative of most group members but do need to be useful in distinguishing groups from each other (Ryan, 2002).…”

How Should I Respond toThem? An Emergent Categorization of Responses to Interpersonally Communicated Stereotypes

“…. [and] it is a production with a social end, which requires synchronization with another's comprehension" (Semin, 2000, p. 597; see also Haslam, Turner, Oakes, Reynolds, & Doosje, 2002;Jussim, McCauley, & Lee, 1995;Ottati & Lee, 1996).…”

“…Stereotypes are defined in a number of ways across the literature, but most scholars describe it as a relationship between a group and some characteristic attributed to that group (e.g., Ottati & Lee 1996). There are similarities between the scholarly definitions and how non-experts define stereotypes (Kurylo, 2012).…”

Engaging politics : political participation in Brazil and Sweden, predicted by stereotypes about parliamentarians, political education and behavioral contagion

“…After all, handling information about each individual in isolation would demand a huge capacity of processing and storage from memory; on the other hand, human cognition tends to work with simplifications of reality (Allport, 1954;Fiske, 1998). Categorization allows the formulation of expectations about the object being categorized, driving the agent's behaviors (Brewer & Brown, 1998;Ottati & Lee, 1995).…”

“…In different situations, stereotypes bear a kernel of truth (Ottati & Lee, 1995) or reach high degrees of consensus (Haslam et al, 1997), except for those created to endorse prejudices and discrimination (Allport, 1954;Cuddy et al, 2009;Ryan & Bogart, 2001). That makes sense as stereotypes fit into several models used in social psychology to explain the cognitive processes.…”