Stereotype

Stereotype

!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](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Villainc.svg/250px-Villainc.svg.png)

Stereotype

!Police officers buying [doughnuts and coffee, an example of perceived stereotypical behavior in North America](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/CopsinaDonutShop2011Shankbone.jpg/250px-CopsinaDonutShop2011Shankbone.jpg)

Relationship with other types of intergroup attitudes

Although related, the three concepts can exist independently of each other. According to Daniel Katz) and Kenneth Braly, stereotyping leads to racial prejudice when people emotionally react to the name of a group, ascribe characteristics to members of that group, and then evaluate those characteristics.

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