Stereotypes persist
Stereotyping is a hard habit to break, according to a new study co-authored by Patricia Devine, a UW-Madison psychology professor, William Cox, a scientist at UW–Madison who studies prejudice, and former Cox lab manager Xizhou Xie. More than 1,000 people participated in a task that involved deciding whether men in social media profiles were gay or straight. People’s responses were not as surprising as their learning patterns, say researchers.
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