The students had no idea of the real purpose of the study they had volunteered for--it is, after all, standard operating procedure in psychology to keep subjects in the dark on that little point. (If ...

The mysteries of the opposite gender have posed questions to mankind since the caveman days. But how do you know which gender you truly belong to? Take the quiz below and find out just how many of ...

Stereotype printing is pressed into the story of The New York Times. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper.

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 ...

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.

Were you Regina George, writing the burn book, or was she writing a page about you? Find out which high school stereotype you are with this quiz!

The media has always given us stereotypes for women. What's new there? In the '90s female stereotypes were just as prevalent as they are now, and from the TV and movies we consumed we got a spread of ...

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 ...