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Stereotypes are defined as a type of perception based on categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, occupation, and personal characteristics.
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Today, the term “stereotype” is used as a lay term, but it was said to be first used by an American journalist named Lippmann. In his 1922 book, Public Opinion, Lippmann used the term to describe human perception of the world. He stated, “For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick up what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture” (p. 81). Although the term prejudice often appears together with descriptions of psychological processes toward other groups and their members, stereotypes are overgeneralized cognitions that can be negative or positive and serve as...
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Moriizumi, S. (2020). Stereotypes. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1923
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