Stereotypes

The Stereotyping Project started when…

I wrote a grant to fund the creation of a video on the practice of stereotyping.  Students worked diligently on the production and, after its completion, it was used as part of the "Freshman Welcome Week" presentation that the University of Minnesota Duluth has every fall as the first week of acclimating students to everything that the campus has to offer.  The basic idea behind the project, which was student generated, was that we often unconsciously use shortcuts or perhaps stereotypes in processing our impressions of others -- but we do have higher brain centers that can be used to question this practice.