In his 1922 book "Public Opinion," journalist Walter Lippmann introduced the word "stereotype" as a metaphor for a mental picture people form based on cultural notions. For example, some stereotypes ...

Workplace stereotyping often goes far beyond race, sex, national origin, color and religion as the bases for unfair generalizations. Stereotyping among employees includes statements about employees ...

This article was updated at 10:20 AM ET on Nov. 2, 2011. Editor's Note: Due to an ongoing investigation into the credibility of Diederik Stapel's research conducted at Tilburg University, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sheila Callaham writes about age-related topics in the workplace. Age stereotypes are beliefs about people from another age ...

Kids are often told that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Even so, people often believe they can rely on their gut to intuit things about other people. Stereotypes often influence these ...

We’ve all heard the stereotypes before. The Greatest Generation is “responsible and hard-working”; Baby Boomers are “selfish”; Gen Xers are “cynical and disaffected”; Millennials are “entitled and ...

Hiding in the crowd I'm all alone. ~ Nine Inch Nails The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. ~ Mark Twain, slightly misquoted. One robust finding in social psychology is the positive ...

On 22nd June 2020, the Indian High Court of the State of Karnataka while granting anticipatory bail to a person accused of rape, observed that it is “unbecoming of an Indian woman” to “fall asleep” ...

A "sex stereotyping" claim arises when an employee alleges that his or her employer engaged in discrimination because the employee failed to adhere to "sex stereotypes" for men or women. A "sex ...