In questionnaires on ethnic stereotypes, (1) Hispanic and White U.S. Navy recruits indicated favorable stereotypes of their own groups (autostereotypes); (2) Whites had a more uniform autostereotype than Hispanics; (3) the White stereotype of Hispanics was generally positive but not uniform; and (4) the Hispanic stereotype of Whites was positive…

The validity of the stereotype of Asian-Americans as a "model minority" was examined by analyzing the academic achievement of 94 Asian-American college students. Only the stereotype that Asian American were more likely to major in science was supported. The subjects' academic achievement was not superior to that of matched comparisons.…

In a study of the auto- and heterostereotypes of Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian adolescents, students responded to schedules that included attributes arranged on bipolar scales. Anglo-Australian students' stereotypes of Aboriginals were unfavorable, uniform, and extremely negative, whereas Aboriginal Australians expressed favorable and positive…

Examines the perceptions of Israeli college students toward the modal intelligence of and social distances among the following groups: (1) European Jews; (2) Eastern Jews; (3) Christian Arabs; (4) Moslem Arabs; and (5) Druze. Concludes that perceptions are molded by and function like cultural group stereotypes. (FMW)

Assesses perceptions of 28 Spanish-speaking and 17 English-speaking Mexican American couples of the stereotypes that they believe Anglo-Americans ascribe to them. Examined the degree of subjects' perceptions as a function of (1) subject gender, (2) level of education, (3) language spoken, and (4) ethnic self-identification. (Author/LHW)

Taiwanese children identified their racial group membership and selected potential playmates from racially diverse photographs. Children displayed some Asian bias. Perception of racial features influenced children's choices more than recognition of ethnic labels, and both factors triggered some bias via knowledge of own-group membership. Age,…

Investigates familiarity as a determinant of perceptions of group heterogeneity, the objective level of heterogeneity characteristic of the target group, and the tendency for perceivers to see social groups consistently with 182 Chinese and 182 American college students and some teachers. Cultural differences in judgments are explored. (SLD)

Australian born male and female students listened to tapes of accented English speech and were asked to relate their impressions and judgments of the speakers' personalities. Results indicated that the nationality and sex of the speakers were factors which influenced the judgments made about them by the Australian students. (Author/APM)

Validity of auto-stereotypes and heterostereotypes of Japanese and Americans is reflected in the rank-order correlations of "own" and "other" judgments for 110 Japanese and 169 U.S. undergraduate students and is found to be a function of the similarity of the 2 cultures when reacting to an episode. (SLD)