Question

For this paper, I want you find and summarize one recent scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals pertaining to stereotyping and prejudice. The article must:

-be in a peer reviewed journal (including, but not limited to: Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Personality and Psychological Science)

-present new data (so no review papers)

-have been published in the last 15 years

-be relevant to the topic of stereotyping and prejudice

-not be an article that we have previously discussed in class

In your papers, you should cover the following for the article:

1. Summarize the article in your own words. This should include a discussion of the following:

what were they testing?

how did they test this?

what did they find?

what does it mean?

2. Evaluate the article. This could go in any number of directions, but make sure you go into detail in explaining the reasoning behind your evaluation.

Answer 1

• Past research suggests that warmth and competence are primary dimensions of social perception used by adults to understand social groups. The current study investigated whether children use these two dimensions to structure their representations of familiar groups. Results indicated that adult warmth and competence judgments were independent from one another and placed groups in warmth by competence space in ways consistent with past work. However, children showed some sensitivity to both dimensions but did not treat them as independent. Children’s judgments of competence were closely aligned with adult judgments, but their judgments of warmth were influenced by factors that solely influenced adult judgments of competence. These data suggest that children develop an understanding of competence as an independent dimension prior to developing an understanding of warmth as an independent dimension and that their judgments of warmth may reflect a more general summing of all available evaluative information. Implications for children’s developing understanding of the broader intergroup landscape are discussed. (The development of stereotype content: The use of warmth and competence in assessing social groups;Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 141, January 2016, Pages 133-144)
• The purpose of this review is to present findings on the effects of stereotypes of aging on health outcomes related to older adults, such as physical and mental functioning (specifically) and overall well-being and perceived quality of life (more broadly). This review shows that both positive and negative stereotypes of aging can have enabling and constraining effects on the actions, performance, decisions, attitudes, and, consequently, holistic health of an older adult. This review further highlights a variety of limitations in stereotype research in aging contexts, including a lack of qualitative studies focusing on older adult perspectives and the fluctuating definition of what constitutes “good health” during older age.
• Research in mainstream gerontology and psychology has demonstrated the effects of stereotypes of aging on the health of older people; however, the mechanisms by which this occurs is constantly debated within and across disciplines (Stereotypes of Aging: Their Effects on the Health of Older Adults;Journal of Geriatrics Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 954027)