When I was young, I liked dinosaurs and trucks ? especially when I staged battles between the two. My only plans for adulthood were to become a firefighter or a police officer, and this was only after ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

We watch movies. We watch shows. And yet we ignore the racial stereotypes they portray. Welcome to a typical American watch party. I first seriously thought about racial stereotypes while viewing ...

This post was authored in collaboration with Chiara Terzo, a research fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology (Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication). In 1922, the ...

Stereotypes are generalizations about groups of people that allow us to quickly judge individuals without having to spend a lot of time getting to know them. This ability for rapid categorization ...

No matter where we come from or who we are, stereotypes affect all of us. Falling into the slippery slope of conforming to a stereotype — whether consciously or subconsciously — is something that can ...

From sports culture to emotional intelligence, discover the outdated myths that completely underestimate the modern female ...