Stereotypes need not originate from kernels of truth

Evidence

A fourth implication of our view is that stereotypes need not arise from a “kernel of truth,” as psychologists and laypersons have frequently assumed (e.g., see Allport, 1954; Brigham, 1971; Fishman, 1956). If the kernel of truth view holds that each stereotype must originate on the basis of some valid observation of differences between groups, then we disagree with it. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2954

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Released evidence cannot dispel beliefs rooted in unfalsifiable subcultures — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 891; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them”; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”