Play it cool. Keep it breezy. Treat 'em mean. Don't reply straight away. Be aloof. Be distant. Be hard to get. These are the rules you need to follow in order to be "The Cool Girl" — a prevalent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russell’s talk immediately brought to mind this video, in which a pageant contestant (Caitlin Upton) messes up a question about maps. I sometimes show this video to my class on prejudice and ...

This piece is from our series, Hair Story. We interview an array of women from different walks of life to discover what their hair means to them. From photographing non-binary people who challenge ...

A new study published in The Journal of Social Psychology has found that White Americans tend to perform worse on tasks requiring rhythmic ability when reminded of the stereotype that they “have no ...

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 ...

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.

A Southeast Asian restaurant closed down last year after facing false accusations of serving dog meat. The accusations are grounded in the racist stereotype of Asians eating dogs. The restaurant ...