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‘Watch Your Language’ Around Children: Generic Language Helps Fuel Stereotypes, Prejudice
August 7, 2012 by NewsBot
Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a study by researchers at New York University and Princeton University has found...
