Keith B. Maddox, PhD (April 2006), in his science briefs on 'Rethinking Racial Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination', describes racial categorization as reflecting the process of placing people into distinct groups based on variation in phenotypic physical features of the face and body such as skin color, hair color and texture, eye shape, nose width, and lip fullness. Racial stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination reflect the human tendencies to conceptualize and value certain configurations of phenotypic features differently, and act on these thoughts and feelings in our interactions with members of racial categories. Ethnic stereotypes are simplified and often misleading representations of the characteristics of members of a given ethnic group.…