Psychology & Psychiatry

Study on language and stereotypes suggests ways to reduce prejudice

(Medical Xpress)—Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at NYU and ...

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Ethnic, gender stereotypes bias treatment of Parkinson's disease

Cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes can significantly distort clinical judgments about "facially masked" patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a newly published study from researchers at Tufts University, Brandeis ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Higher cognitive abilities linked to greater risk of stereotyping

People with higher cognitive abilities are more likely to learn and apply social stereotypes, finds a new study. The results, stemming from a series of experiments, show that those with higher cognitive abilities also more ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

College football players can cry (a little) if they want to

While there's no crying in baseball, as Tom Hanks' character famously proclaimed in "A League of Their Own," crying in college football might not be a bad thing, at least in the eyes of one's teammates.

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