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Stereotypes are often harmful social heuristics that emerge through generalizations about groups of people. Regularly, these groups are classified by their skin color, apparent gender, or other superficial features. Our study mimicked real life by introducing participants (N = 121) to artificially colored images of human faces (blue versus red faces) who looked male or female and to stereotyping information about one of the colors that were either negatively or positively phrased. Participants indicated how much they trusted group members and completed a self-rated scale regarding general faith in others. This study found that the stereotyping information could effectively bias participant ratings, regardless of what color face they initially preferred, F(3,117) = 11.26, p |
