Title: Stereotyping - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
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Stereotype

Content: Stereotyping is a cognitive process in that it involves associating a characteristic with a group, but it can also involve, lead to, or serve to justify an affective reaction toward people from other groups (e.g., Allport, 1954; Link and Phelan, 2001 ). Stereotypes are learned, and can be both explicitly and implicitly taught or reinforced to people through many different social influences, including but not limited to friends and family, neighbors, teachers, peer groups, as well as larger societal influences. As one important example, the media have often been studied and discussed in terms of the role that they play in creating, promoting, and sustaining stereotypes of many different groups through the representations that they present, as the media have a large influence on many people. Some groups are generally underrepresented in the media, yet the images that do exist in the media are disproportionately stereotypical (e.g., Mastro and Greenberg, 2000 ). These media representations can affect people’s endorsement of stereotypes, especially if people do not have frequent, close contact with members of the groups being represented outside of what they see in the media. Some people, including some researchers, argue that stereotypes can reflect reality and can be based on the prevalence of characteristics in groups (e.g., Wolsko et al., 2000 ), which can justify stereotypes and suggest they are not necessarily bad or harmful. However, even the argument that stereotypes are based on some kernel of truth becomes problematic when stereotypes are overgeneralized to all members of a particular group because these overgeneralizations are inaccurate. Stereotype inaccuracy and overgeneralization have consequences that can be harmful in many ways for the mental health and general well-being of the targets of these stereotypes.