Transcription of Stereotypes - Harvard University
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}
StereotypesPedro Bordalo, Katherine Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer First draft, November 2013. This version, May present a model of Stereotypes in which a decision maker assessing a group recallsonly that group s most representative or distinctive types. Stereotypes highlight differencesbetween groups, and are especially inaccurate (consisting of unlikely, extreme types) whengroups are similar. Stereotypical thinking implies overreaction to information that generatesor confirms a stereotype, and underreaction to information that contradicts it. Stereotypescan change if new information changes the group s most distinctive trait. We present exper-imental evidence on the role of representativeness in shaping subjects mental representationof groups.
The third approach to stereotypes – and the one we follow – is the “social cognition approach”, rooted in social psychology (Schneider 2004). This approach gained ground in the 1980s and views social stereotypes as special cases of cognitive schemas or theories (Schneider, Hastorf, and Ellsworth 1979).
Domain:
Source:
Link to this page:
Please notify us if you found a problem with this document:
{{id}} {{{paragraph}}}