What are stereotypes and why do we use them? Are all stereotypes bad? Can we stop people from using them? Questions such as these have fascinated social psychologists for many years.Perry Hinton provides an accessible introduction to this key area, giving a critical and concise overview of the influential theories and approaches, as well as insights into recent work on the role of language and culture in stereotyping. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In Richard Powers' An Alien Among Us, it's your job to lead an intergalactic space mission. Will you accept the challenge?From a list of twelve candidates, players must select six to join the mission based on attributes that fall into categories such as gender, age, religion, nationality, positive attributes and negative attributes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Brashears, Deya J., Kinley, Gary J.

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Product Description: For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women. Authors like Chodorow, Gilligan, and Tannen (author of the best-seller You Just Don't Understand) have portrayed males and females as possessing different traits, styles, and even different languages, viewing these gender differences as deep-seated and enduring...read more

Product Description: What is the nature of the relationship between stereotypes and the features of the social world that they purport to represent? Is it true that stereotyping necessarily involves a perceptual or cognitive distortion of social reality? Most students (and many researchers) embark on the topic with the assumption that in stereotyping the perceiver activates fixed images (eg "women are passive", "the French are arrogant") which both reflect and bolster prejudice through the misrepresentation of people's "true" character...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a collection of chapters exploring the interface of cognitive and affective processes in stereotyping. Stereotypes and prejudice have long been topics of interest in social psychology, but early literature and research in this area focused on affect alone, while later studies focused primarily on cognitive factors associated with information processing strategies...read more

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Collects women's stereotypes of men from interviews, art, politics, and psychology in a controversial 'postfeminist' exposition that argues that man-hating is a 'collective, cultural phenomenon' and not an individual neurosis. National ad/promo. Tour.

Product Description: The study of stereotyping and prejudice is a study of human nature, group mem­ bership, and intergroup relationships. It sheds light on each of these aspects of social psychology. With respect to the first two, it has been observed that since groups provide the best framework for satisfying various human needs, individuals continuously organize themselves in collectives...read more