Social psychology is the study of how the presence of people can affect one individual's behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. When looking at social psychology one must examine all aspects that impact it such as stereotyping. The textbook defines stereotypes as a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing (Kassin, Fein, & Markus, 2014). Stereotypes are not the product of individual cognitive activity alone, but what society and social standards portray (Heatherton, 2000). Stereotypes occur everywhere. In the article, US Bringing Up The Middle on Gender-since Stereotyping, psychologist conducted research that studied data from nearly 350,000 people in 66 countries. The participants were measured on two types of stereotypes : explicit and implicit. The individuals surveyed rated how much they associated science with men or women (explicit) and were measured by how quickly they associated words like "math" and "physics" with words such as "boy" or "man" (implicit) (Levy, 2015).
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Gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely countries, with the Netherlands leading the list and the United States in the middle at 38th, according to research that surveyed more than 350,000 people in 66 countries through a website called Project Implicit (Levy, 2015). Overall, the U.S. fell in about the middle of the pack, ranking 38th for both explicit and implicit stereotyping. America ranked 39th for its representation of women in science majors 43 percent, but came in 10th from the bottom for its proportion of female scientific researchers (Levy, 2015). These stereotypes are important because they can contribute to outcomes such as biased hiring decisions and impacts on social perception and
Gender stereotyping in which men are more strongly associated with science than women has been found in some unlikely countries, with the Netherlands leading the list and the United States in the middle at 38th, according to research that surveyed more than 350,000 people in 66 countries through a website called Project Implicit (Levy, 2015). Overall, the U.S. fell in about the middle of the pack, ranking 38th for both explicit and implicit stereotyping. America ranked 39th for its representation of women in science majors 43 percent, but came in 10th from the bottom for its proportion of female scientific researchers (Levy, 2015). These stereotypes are important because they can contribute to outcomes such as biased hiring decisions and impacts on social perception and