Do stereotypes about religious people undermine their performance in certain tests? Studies have found Christians tend to underperform non-Christians when it comes to tests of logical ability. There ...

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, ...

Stereotype threat theory provides a novel mechanism through which ‎‎the performance of stigmatized groups can be ‎impaired. The ‎fundamental principle of stereotype threat theory is that groups of ...

Many girls with ADHD aren't diagnosed until their late teens or adulthood. My recent research points to a possible ...

Over the years, researchers have documented differences between men and women in performance in domains like math as well as racial differences in performance on a variety of tasks. The core question ...

“Our study may be the first to investigate how students’ stereotypical beliefs about the reading ability of boys form what you might call the ‘common stereotype’ of a class, and how this common ...

Millennials are lazy, entitled and get more done on Facebook than at work. Baby Boomers are old, set in their ways and wouldn’t know how to use all this new technology even if they wanted to. Today, ...

We know blondes are supposed to have more fun, but there's a much more damaging stereotype you've also likely heard: They're dumb. But not only are blondes just as smart as women with other hair ...

Chinae Alexander first dyed her hair blond in 2017. At first, she was hesitant; as a Korean-American with naturally dark features, she initially worried the transformation would take her away from her ...