DEVELOPMENT AND PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF THE STEREOTYPIC BELIEFS INVENTORY

This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a S tereotypic Beliefs Inventory, a measure of individual differences in t he extent to which English-speaking Canadians hold Stereotypic beliefs about cultural or ethnic outgroups. A Stereotypic belief is the belie f that members of cultural or ethnic outgroups differ systematically i n specific personality characteristics from members of cultural or eth nic ingroups. This scale is the only currently available measure of et hnic stereotyping that has been shown to be unaffected by socially des irable responses in Canada.