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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"positive stereotypes"”.
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Fulfilling Positive Stereotypical Expectations, Performance Boosts or Performance Decrements?
… is plenty of research on effects of negative stereotypes on performance, but less is known about effects of positive stereotypes. Research examining effects of positive stereotypes on performance has found mixed, often competing, results; positive stereotypes have been shown to lead to …
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The impact of television viewing on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans
… and interpersonal contact on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans. White American undergraduate students (N = 231) at a small private university in the western United States completed an anonymous self-administered group questionnaire. Regression analysis revealed that the …
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Cognitive Accessibility of Racial Stereotypes, Beliefs, and Self-esteem in Black and White College Students
… was to assess whether internalization of racial stereotypes existed in black and white college students. It was hypothesized that cognitive accessibility of racial stereotypes would occur and would be displayed by differential reaction times to stereotypes following the racial categories of black …
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Stereotypes and Prejudice: Intergroup Contact Between Americans and Japanese
… showed that both Americans and Japanese have positive stereotypes of each other, with Americans selecting the trait "intelligent" as the most common descriptor of Japanese people, and Japanese selecting the trait "pleasure-loving" the most common descriptor of Americans. Although orientation …
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Effects of the working class label: increased affect and social class identification
… stronger group identification, endorsed more positive stereotypes about their social class group, and showed less negative affect (Studies 2a and 2b). Implications for conceptualizing social class as a valued group identity and its implications for the social class academic achievement gap are …
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Perceived intercultural impacts of tourism in the Dominican Republic: A rural host community perspective
… questionnaires and interviews which revealed positive attitudes towards tourism, interest in expanding tourism, and various positive stereotypes towards tourists and about Dominicans themselves. In conclusion, the results were consistent with past research and include present recommendations …
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Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map
… how metaphorical links, between negative and positive stereotypes, may be helping to change Las Vegas from being a "cultural wasteland" to a "cultural frontier."
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Everyday Discrimination: The Experiences of Hungarian Roma
… concerns one particular form of recognition: the positive recognition of Roma musicality. There are contradictory findings about the benefits of positive stereotypes. Although it has been shown to have the potential to counter-balance the negative effects of being negatively stereotyped, positive …
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Class is out: mental health professionals' social class identification and classist attitudes toward low-income clients
… GAF scores with or without treatment over time, positive and negative stereotype endorsement, perceptions of the therapeutic relationship, and potential treatment modalities. Clinicians did not rate the vignettes differently in terms of stereotypes but rated the low-‐income client as having a …
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Saudi students and IEP teachers: converging and diverging perspectives
… in their students based on their gender, with positive stereotypes associated with female students and negative stereotypes with male students. Students, however, hardly oriented to gender at all. In addition, the teachers identified many study skills, classroom expectations, and pragmatic …
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Fixin' To Tell: Cultural Preservation, Multiculturalism, And A Delicate Double Commitment In Appalshop's "Insider" Activism
… media in activist work as a tool for undermining stereotypes and engendering positive identity formation. Despite steady increases in community-based documentary work, such programs remain relatively underscrutinized, with the majority of scholarship praising the liberatory potentials of …
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Free trade refugees: from Chiapas to the prairie
… as a “truth” that refutes prevailing untruths or stereotypes about Mexican immigrants but that stands, rather, in contrast to the “truth of the period.” Leps (1992), building on the work of Foucault, asserts that the truth of a period “corresponds not to the closest perception of a primary …
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Heartwarming Narratives: The Role of Kama Muta in Stereotype Reduction
… and films increase, there are still pervasive stereotypes perpetuated through media of non-mainstream characters (or out-group members) such as gay men which leads to harmful stereotypes and discriminatory behavior. Media psychologists have introduced stereotype reduction interventions through …
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The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan
… 2015). A large body of research suggests that positive and negative views on aging are associated with long-term health benefits and detriments, respectively. According to stereotype embodiment theory, stereotypes are incrementally internalized across the lifespan, forming our aging …