OBJECTIVE To assess the relation between demographic factors and film smoking stereotypes in adolescents and the potential influence of smoker stereotypes on smoking susceptibility. DESIGN A cross sectional questionnaire survey of school students (n = 3041) aged 12-13 and 16-17 years who were asked to describe the personal characteristics of female and male smokers in films. SETTING 15 prim...

BACKGROUND Research concerning negative attitudes toward the elderly among samples of North American respondents has uncovered two distinct yet comparable three-factor structures: (1) avoidance, antilocution and separation; and (2) discrimination, stereotypes and affective attitudes. In addition, previous research has demonstrated that men and younger people have more negative attitudes toward ...

The role of culture in the development of international buyer/seller relationships has attracted the attention of academics and practitioners in marketing and management (for example, Adler 1997; Dabholkar, Johnston & Cathey 1994; Hofstede 1994; Soutar, Grainger & Hedges 1999). This paper examines the role of national culture and stereotyping in the development of a potential buyer/seller relat...

Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language to provide means of customizing this general purpose modeling language for its usage in specific application domains. The primary role of stereotypes is to brand an existing model element with specific semantics, but stereotypes can also be used to provide means of a secondary classification of modeling elements. This paper elaborat...

In the context of object-oriented formalism, stereotypes are presented as a new means for user-defined extensions of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Unfortunately, the stereotypes syntax and semantics vary depending on the proposed extensions and it is not easy to propose a complete formalization of this mechanism. This is the reason why this paper tries to identify and formalize a pertine...

The media stereotypes military veterans as damaged beings or indestructible heroes, often forming implicit and explicit biases that impact medical health providers’ capability to connect emotionally with veterans. This educational tool uses interactive theater challenge veteran stigma, enhance empathy, increase learners’ ability talk about their service. 90-minute session includes an performanc...

Within a globalized world, resettling from one country to another has become more and more frequent (i.e., the number of immigrants is currently estimated at more than 190 Million worldwide by the United Nations), and not only in classical immigration countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia, and South American countries. Reasons for migration vary, and range from escaping from extremely ad...

In Study 1 ( N = 230), we found that the participants’ explicit prejudice was not related to their knowledge of cultural stereotypes of immigrants in Sweden, and that they associated the social category immigrants with the same national/ethnic categories. In Study 2 ( N = 88), employing the category and stereotype words obtained in Study 1 as primes, we examined whether participants with varyin...