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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

stereotype , plate from which printing is done, made by casting metal in a mold, usually of paper pulp. The process was patented in 1725 by the Scottish inventor William Ged. Firmin Didot improved the process, named it, and extended its use. Cylinder presses, by which newspapers were traditionally printed, use curved stereotype plates that fit the cylinders. For other applications, stereotype has largely been replaced by electrotype. ... Read more

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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language STEREOTYPE. A STOCK concept, image, or type: racial , ethnic , and sexual stereotypes ; a stereotypical mean Scotsman/drunken Irishman . Read more

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes stereotype • gripe , hype, mistype, pipe, ripe, sipe, slype, snipe, stripe, swipe, tripe, type, wipe •guttersnipe...x2022;phenotype • linotype • Monotype •electrotype • daguerreotype •subtype • stereotype • collotype • genotype , stenotype ... Read more

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	Lack of stereotype threat at a liberal arts college.(Report) Magazine article from: College Student Journal; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Stereotype threat has been demonstrated to reduce the performance of stereotyped individuals in the threatened domain (Steele & Aronson...This study attempted to replicate the finding that stereotype threat instruction can erase the performance deficit... Read more
	Stereotype susceptibility narrows the gender gap in imagined self-rotation performance Magazine article from: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Three studies examined the impact of stereotype messages on men's and women's performance...2 found that exposure to a positive stereotype message enhanced women's performance...3, men who were exposed to the same stereotype message emphasizing a female advantage... Read more
	RESEARCH: Fighting Stereotype Anxiety Magazine article from: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education; 2/16/1996; ; 700+ words ; RESEARCH: Fighting Stereotype Anxiety. Why do Blacks score lower...University, has a different explanation -- stereotype vulnerability. After seven years...threat of fulfilling the negative stereotype is removed from the test-taking situation... Read more
	Attributions and stereotype moderation. Magazine article from: New Zealand Journal of Psychology; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...relationship between attributions made for stereotype-relevant behaviours and stereotype-based beliefs. In Experiment 1 participants...individual from a target group performing a stereotype-consistent behaviour. After reading the scenario... Read more
	Intergroup Stereotypes of Working Class Blacks and Whites: Implications for Stereotype Threat. Magazine article from: The Western Journal of Black Studies; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; Abstract Stereotypes about Blacks may have strong implications...perception, as documented by research on stereotype threat (Steele, 1997). It is therefore...knowledge of the content of Black stereotypes from the perspective of both the dominant... Read more
	Reducing stereotype-based judgments: the impact of habitual stereotype use. Magazine article from: New Zealand Journal of Psychology; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...experiment investigated whether an individual's habitual use of social stereotypes influenced the impact of the presentation of stereotype-disconfirming information on stereotype-based beliefs. Participants were first categorized as either high... Read more
	Stereotype threat and women's performance in engineering Magazine article from: Journal of Engineering Education; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Recent research has demonstrated that stereotype threat-the concern that others will judge one negatively due to a stereotype that exists about one's group-interferes...diagnostic of ability (i.e., when stereotype threat is high) women perform worse... Read more
	Risky and Careful Processing under Stereotype Threat: How Performance is Influenced by Activated Self-Stereotypes Magazine article from: Psychology Science; 1/1/2005; ; 294 words ; ...Seibt Risky and Careful Processing under Stereotype Threat: How Performance is Influenced by Activated Self-Stereotypes Men can't listen and women can't drive are just two of the many negative stereotypes about groups frequently encountered in... Read more
	Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth Magazine article from: The Journal of Negro Education; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth...motives surrounding the seemingly positive stereotype of Asian Americans. As Christine Sleeter...ix). In unraveling the model minority stereotype, this work illustrates how it is used... Read more
	The effects of stereotype consistency and consensus information on predictions of performance. Magazine article from: The Journal of Social Psychology; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; THE EFFECTS OF STEREOTYPES on individuals' judgments has been...focused on the conditions under which stereotypes influence target judgments, why they influence target judgments, and how stereotype and individuating information are integrated... Read more

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