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Urban Middle School Students’ Stereotypes at the Intersection of Sexual Orientation, Ethnicity, and Gender
- Source :
- Child Development. 89:881-896
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- Heterosexual urban middle school students’ (N = 1,757) stereotypes about gender typicality, intelligence, and aggression were assessed. Students (Mage = 12.36 years) rated Facebook-like profiles of peers who varied by gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Several hypotheses about how the gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation of target peers intersect to shape stereotypes were tested. As predicted, a peer's sexual orientation determined stereotypes of gender typicality, with gay and lesbian students viewed as most atypical. As expected, ethnicity shaped stereotypes of intelligence, with Asian American students seen as most intelligent. Gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation independently and jointly affected stereotypes of aggression. These results demonstrate the value of an intersectional approach to the study of stereotypes. Implications for future research and practice are offered.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Urban Population
Sexual Behavior
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Intelligence
education
Ethnic group
Poison control
050109 social psychology
Suicide prevention
Peer Group
Education
Developmental psychology
Ethnicity
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Homosexuality
Child
Students
media_common
Stereotyping
Aggression
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Human factors and ergonomics
Social Perception
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Sexual orientation
Female
Lesbian
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Social psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00093920
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child Development
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8c0e51badf1fa9108fc28c2ac5b20d42