Subjectively favourable belief about a social group
In social psychology, a positive stereotype refers to a subjectively favourable belief held about a social group.[1] Common examples of positive stereotypes are Asians with better math ability, African Americans with greater athletic ability, and women with being warmer and more communal. As opposed to negative stereotypes, positive stereotypes represent a "positive" evaluation of a group that typically signals an advantage over another group.[2] As such, positive stereotypes may be considered a form of compliment or praise.[3] However, positive stereotypes can have a positive or negative effect on targets of positive stereotypes. The positive or negative influence of positive stereotypes on targets depends on three factors: (1) how the positive stereotype is stated, (2) who is stating the positive stereotype, (3) in what culture the positive stereotype is presented (e.g., Western contexts vs. East Asian contexts).[4]
^Siy, John Oliver; Cheryan, Sapna (2016-07-01). "Prejudice Masquerading as Praise The Negative Echo of Positive Stereotypes". Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 42 (7): 941–954. doi:10.1177/0146167216649605. ISSN 0146-1672. PMID 27287753. S2CID 36153890.
^Czopp, Alexander M. (2008-03-01). "When is a compliment not a compliment? Evaluating expressions of positive stereotypes". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 44 (2): 413–420. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2006.12.007.
^Mae, Lynda; Carlston, Donal E. (2005-05-01). "Hoist on your own petard: When prejudiced remarks are recognized and backfire on speakers". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 41 (3): 240–255. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2004.06.011.
^Czopp, Alexander M.; Kay, Aaron C.; Cheryan, Sapna (2015-07-01). "Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful". Perspectives on Psychological Science. 10 (4): 451–463. doi:10.1177/1745691615588091. ISSN 1745-6916. PMID 26177947. S2CID 5968202.
and 28 Related for: Positive stereotype information
psychology, a positivestereotype refers to a subjectively favourable belief held about a social group. Common examples of positivestereotypes are Asians...
political anti-Americanism. According to American William Bennett a positivestereotype of Americans is that they are very generous. The United States sends...
be a negative assumption. They may be positive, neutral, or negative. An explicit stereotype refers to stereotypes that one is aware that one holds, and...
opposite of stereotype threat is stereotype boost, which is when people perform better than they otherwise would have, because of exposure to positive stereotypes...
generalizations. Negative stereotypes are often associated with homophobia, lesbophobia, gayphobia, biphobia, or transphobia. Positivestereotypes, or counterstereotypes...
[better source needed] Russians, on the other hand, also have a positivestereotype of Germans due to being serious and punctual, as well as being good...
comprehending the ways in which minorities and people of color survive. Positivestereotypes of White Americans include that they are intelligent, socially diverse...
Stereotypes of Indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States of America include many ethnic stereotypes found worldwide which include historical misrepresentations...
An implicit bias or implicit stereotype is the pre-reflective attribution of particular qualities by an individual to a member of some social out group...
Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States are ethnic stereotypes found in American society about first-generation immigrants and their American-born...
Stereotypes of Jews are generalized representations of Jews, often caricatured and of a prejudiced and antisemitic nature. Reproduced common objects,...
Stereotypes of African Americans are misleading beliefs about the culture of people with partial or total ancestry from any black racial groups of Africa...
A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, including nursing children. The fictionalized mammy...
than those using other positive attributes. Other scholars have discussed the potential for the stereotype to be the 'positive spin' on the money-mad...
Stereotype embodiment theory (SET) is a theoretical model first posited by psychologist Becca Levy to explain the process by which age stereotypes influence...
anthropologic concept of the noble savage to the Western World; later a cultural stereotype who featured in the exotic-place tourism reported in the European travel...
focusing on positive attributes related to Hispanics and Latinos, Arias and Hellmueller wrote that news media content focused mainly on stereotypes and misjudgments...
From Negative Stereotype to Positive Image was a 1993 photographic exhibition of work by four Birmingham photographers: Sir Benjamin Stone (1838–1914)...
The physical attractiveness stereotype, commonly known as the "beautiful-is-good" stereotype, is the tendency to assume that physically attractive individuals...
The Jewish nose, or the Jew's nose, is an antisemitic ethnic stereotype referring to a hooked nose with a convex nasal bridge and a downward turn of the...
prejudice. The survey also stated that: These stereotypes are not intended to demonstrate a less positive attitude towards these groups, but lesbians,...
function in that they are invoked to highlight positive aspects of the in-group by explicit auto-stereotyping or, alternatively, to identify the negative...
into "metaphors of the American black experience" while creating a positivestereotype of "supremely physical, supremely sensitive beings" at the expense...
assimilate, more positive perceptions prevail. South Asians are stereotyped as belonging to two socioeconomic groups. They are stereotyped either as convenience...
black woman stereotype is a racial stereotype of Black American women as pugnacious, poorly mannered, and aggressive. Among stereotypes of groups within...
bias reinforces negative stereotypes and prejudice about the outgroup and favouritism of the ingroup through positivestereotypes. The theory also extends...
social psychology, the stereotype content model (SCM) is a model, first proposed in 2002, postulating that all group stereotypes and interpersonal impressions...
metastereotype (or meta-stereotype) is a stereotype that members of one group have about the way in which they are stereotypically viewed by members of another...
Global Information