The first study by Katz and Braley(1993) investigated if traditional social stereotypes are affected by culture. They asked 100 males from Princeton, to choose five traits that characterized different ethnic groups, like Americans, Jews, Japanese and African-American, form a list of words. The results showed that the students chose negative characteristics for the ethnic groups they had almost no contact, like Jews or African-American, calling them superstitious or shrewd, however, they chose positive
The first study by Katz and Braley(1993) investigated if traditional social stereotypes are affected by culture. They asked 100 males from Princeton, to choose five traits that characterized different ethnic groups, like Americans, Jews, Japanese and African-American, form a list of words. The results showed that the students chose negative characteristics for the ethnic groups they had almost no contact, like Jews or African-American, calling them superstitious or shrewd, however, they chose positive