In an interview earlier this year, Sen. Harry Reid argued that it's time for a woman to run for president. "Women have qualities that we've been lacking in America for a long time," he told New York ...

That everyone's so friendly here. Well, there's some merit to it, but the way foreigners describe it is so exaggerated. It's only because most of the Filipinos don't know how to be rude in English.

Voters hold clear and positive stereotypes of women politicians − while they don't think as positively about men in politics. Artis777/iStock/Getty Images If U.S. voters elect Kamala Harris – a Black, ...

This is a guest post by H. Wenwen Ni, J. Oliver Siy, and Sapna Cheryan, PhD Basketball’s favorite underdog story came to a temporary halt when Jeremy Lin announced on March 31 st that he would be out ...

When people think about stereotypes, their minds often first gravitate to negative generalizations: Blacks are lazy, Scots are miserly, old people have poor memory, women are irrational, Canadians ...

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Stereotypes are a terrible idea because they lump together vast, diverse groups via gross exaggeration, providing an easy reflex for the slow-witted to reference rather than forcing them to deal with ...

Nice stereotypes are supposedly almost as damaging as negative ones, so why don’t we lay them all out here–until the list is longer than a black appendage, lol–and then flush the whole thing away like ...

Looking on the bright side is linked to a quicker recovery, a study found. Nov. 21, 2012— -- Older patients with positive attitudes on aging may be more likely to fully recover from severe ...

As explicit discrimination has receded in recent decades, those who study prejudice have had to grapple with a difficult question: Why do some minority groups continue to perform worse than others on ...

Citations: Bodenhausen, Galen. 2000. When Positive Stereotypes threaten intellectual performance: The psychological hazards of "model minority" status. Psychological Science. (5)399-402.