Palma thinks that all gay men have a superior fashion sense. She knows that her chemistry professor is gay, and notices that he is not a particularly snappy dresser. She rationalizes this by saying, "Well, he's a gay professor -they don't know how to dress that well." This is an example of how

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Palma is using subtyping, a cognitive process where exceptions to a stereotype are seen as a separate category, rather than altering the original stereotype. This allows the stereotype that "all gay men have a superior fashion sense" to persist despite contradictory evidence.

Palma Thinks That All Gay Men Have a Superior Fashion