As a Saudi woman scientist, I’m tired of negative stereotypes

A portrait of a woman as a scientist: breaking down barriers created by gender-role stereotypes

Educational, attitudinal, and sociocultural factors create baniers that prevent girls and young women from pursuing opportunities in science. Of these baniers, gender-role stereotypes of science have been cited as a significant obstacle. This research analyses a US television series that counters gender-role stereotypes of science. The analysis found the images presented on this series challeng...

Facebook as a site for negative age stereotypes.

Ageism has been found to exist throughout a wide variety of societal institutions. Whether it also exists in social networking sites has not been previously considered. To explore this possibility, we conducted a content analysis of each publicly accessible Facebook group that concentrated on older individuals. The site "Descriptions" of the 84 groups, with a total of 25,489 members, were analy...

"I am us": negative stereotypes as collective threats.

Collective threat is the fear that an in-group member's behavior might reinforce a negative stereotype of one's group. In a field study, self-reported collective threat was higher in stereotyped minorities than in Whites and was linked to lower self-esteem in both groups. In 3 experimental studies, a potentially poor performance by an in-group member on a stereotype-relevant task proved threate...

The Positive (and Negative) Consequences of Endorsing Negative Self- stereotypes

Boulding as a Moral Scientist

Kenneth Boulding’s AEA presidential address argued that economics is a moral science. His view derived from his general systems theory thinking, his three systems view of human society, and his early contributions to evolutionary economics. Boulding’s argument that economics could not be value-free should be distinguished from other well-known views of economics as a moral science, such as Gunn...