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June 25, 2010

Friendships, family relationships get better with age thanks to forgiveness, stereotypes

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Part of what makes those relationships so golden during the golden years is that people of all ages are more likely to forgive and respect one's elders, according to new research.

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March 5, 2010

Am happy, will be paranoid/ gullible; am sad, will be realistic

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Image via WikipediaHappiness may lead to mood-congruent effects of increasing trust(a positive emotion itself) in interpersonal situations;  an alternative theory is that happiness leads to top-down processing , thus relying more on activated schema , stereotypes etc and thus leading to more trust when trust schema or cues are salient and distrust when untrustworthy schema More >Rating: 0.0/1

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February 17, 2010

Do stereotypes drive consumer purchases from for-profit or nonprofit organizations?

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Consumers perceive nonprofit organizations as being "warm," but not particularly competent, according to a new study.

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January 7, 2010

Stereotypes: Why We Act Without Thinking

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Three classic experiments show how stereotypes can influence our behaviour without our knowledge.Despite their bad name, stereotypes can be handy short cuts that give us useful information about the world and other people. For example the stereotype of psychologists is that they are going to analyse you, then start meddling. There's certainly some truth to [...]» Check out Deepak Chopra's n

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August 22, 2009

Visits To Nana’s May Keep Toddlers From Developing Negative Age Stereotypes

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It's easy to list the negative stereotypes attributed to the elderly: they are considered forgetful, hard-of-hearing, absent-minded and confused. What's unsettling is that those stereotypes can be present in children as young as two or three.

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June 23, 2009

Citizens In 34 Countries Show Implicit Bias Linking Males More Than Females With Science

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Implicit stereotypes -- thoughts that people may be unwilling to express or may not even know that they have -- may have a powerful effect on gender equity in science and mathematics engagement and performance, according to a new study.

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May 4, 2009

Psyched Out By Stereotypes: Research Suggests Thinking About The Positive

Cognitive scientists have shown that when aware of both a negative and positive stereotype related to performance, women will identify more closely with the positive stereotype, avoiding the harmful impact the negative stereotype unwittingly can have on their performance. This is the first study to examine the influence of concurrent stereotypes, one negative and one positive. It also demonstrate

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May 1, 2009

Mexicans More Sociable Than Americans: One Stereotype That Is True

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Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group. But now researchers have found evidence that supports a stereotype held by many in the United States -- that Mexicans are more outgoing, talkative, sociable and extroverted. The finding also contradicts the way many Mexicans view themselves as being less extroverted than Americans.

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