People all belong to a gender, race, age, and social economic group. These groups provide a powerful source of our identity and self-esteem (Tajfel…

Humans are very diverse and although we share many similarities, we also have many differences. The social groups we belong to help form our…

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) was first proposed by Susan Fiske and her colleagues (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick & Xu, 2002; see also Fiske, 2012 and…

During the 1950s, the landmark Robbers Cave experiment demonstrated that when groups must compete with one another, intergroup conflict, hostility,…

When we hold a stereotype about a person, we have expectations that he or she will fulfill that stereotype. A self-fulfilling prophecy is an…

Source: Julian Wills & Jay Van Bavel—New York University The study of intergroup relations, such as prejudice, conflict, and…

Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University Social psychologists have long been interested in the way people form impressions…

As life expectancy increases, aging has become a major health challenge, resulting in a huge effort to better discriminate between normal and…