I've been programmed since birth not to stereotype people. I've been taught in high school, college, Boy Scouts, Church, employee orientations, and by know-it-all student body presidents that ...

How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time children start elementary school, gender and race shape their lives in many ways ...

In the current issue of the influential journal Human Development, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges his colleagues to reconsider popular ideas about the role of ...

We’ve all heard the jokes: “blonde moments,” “dumb blondes” and “blondes have more fun.” Such words seem harmless, but actually have a bigger effect on our society today. These phrases, which are ...

I'd like to posit my thoughts on these two words. I often hear people using one for the other as I understand their meanings so I thought I'd get this off my chest. <BR><BR>Generalizing is when you ...

I think I might be on the brink of an existential crisis. It’s not because of the 24/7 study marathon in the race to finals or my impending graduation. No, my recent feelings of deep psychological ...

Generation Z, the cohort born between the mid-1990s and the early 2010s, is often considered through the lens of broad generalizations. Labeled as hypersensitive ‘snowflakes’ and criticized as lacking ...

I found William Deresiewicz’s recent piece, “Academe’s Divorce From Reality” (The Chronicle Review, November 21), disappointing in its propagation of popular stereotypes and sweeping generalizations.

Math majors have no social life. All business students do is party. If you're studying communication, you've probably never had a day of real homework this semester. Students play on stereotypes and ...

As society divides into two rival sects, politics retreats into simplistic stereotypes. Bombastic generalizations about political opponents used to be the province of demagogues and provocateurs.