HROB 2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stereotype

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2090
• Professor: Bahramirad

Document Summary

Stereotyping the tendency to generalize about people in a certain social category and ignore variations among them. Stereotype threat members of a social group feel they might be judged or treated according to a stereotype and that their behaviour and/or performance will confirm the stereotype. To a great extent the answer resides in the fact that people tend to do as little cognitive work as possible when it comes to thinking about others. That is, we tend to rely on mental shortcuts. If assigning people to groups allows us to assume that we know what they are like and how they may act, then we can save the tedious work of learning about them as individuals. After all, we come into contact with so many people that it"s impractical if not impossible to learn everything about them we need to know.