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Stereotypes

Stereotypes

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Stereotypes

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Full title

Stereotypes

Publisher

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Journal title

The Quarterly journal of economics, 2016-11, Vol.131 (4), p.1753-1794

Language

English

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Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Contents

We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky’s representativeness heuristic. A decision maker assesses a target group by overweighting its representative types, defined as the types that occur more frequently in that group than in a baseline reference group. Stereotypes formed this way contain a “kernel of truth”: they are rooted...

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Stereotypes

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1847483109

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1847483109

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ISSN

0033-5533,1531-4650

E-ISSN

1531-4650

DOI

10.1093/qje/qjw029

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