Stereotypes are oversimplified generalizations about the general characteristics of groups. As the focus of research in the field of social psychology for half a century, stereotypes, through simplification, help However, on the other hand, the simplification of labels is also obscuring the richness of individual differences.

Stereotypes are widely used and are usually useful as inductive conclusions, while in fact they may not be accurate when placed on a particular person or event. Therefore, it is often important to introspect about this and make sure that we do not use stereotypes unfairly or inaccurately in our own evaluations and decisions.

In recent years, with the development of research, the theory of stereotype content model proposed by Fiske et al.

Stereotypes are an important topic of social psychology research, which are not necessarily based on facts and do not take into account individual differences, but are simply fixed perceptions that exist in people's minds, but can have positive and negative effects on people's cognition and behavior.

Stereotyping is everywhere, it becomes our symbol, it becomes our burden, sometimes overtrying, sometimes killing the self-nature.

Making generalized conclusions based on the limited material given to people can cause them to ignore individual differences in perceiving others, which can lead to perceptual errors and create preconceptions that prevent them from making correct evaluations of others. Examples of stereotypes abound in our daily lives, and they often act on unfamiliar people or events, that is, people apply stereotypes to an event or person when the information is not completely thorough and not fully understood.

Stereotypes come from wide sources, much from popular literature, and are often supported by various prejudices and group interests.