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Also known as stereotypes
thumb|upright|An 18th-century Dutch engraving of the peoples of the world. thumb|A stereotypical caricature of a [[villain (i.e. generic melodramatic villain stock character, with handlebar moustache and black top-hat), particularly popular in early-20th-century silent films and melodramas and popularized by Snidely Whiplash]] thumb|Police officers buying doughnuts and [[coffee, an example of perceived stereotypical behavior in North America]] In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about ever
A stereotype is a generalized belief that people hold about a particular group or category of people, often based on oversimplified assumptions rather than individual differences. Stereotypes matter because they can influence how people perceive and treat others, potentially leading to unfair judgments that don't reflect who individuals actually are.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).
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