42 (A)We tend to stereotype because it helps us to make sense out of the highly confusing world. (B)Hence it is not surprising that stereotypes have something to do with the dark world of prejudice. (C)Surprisingly, most children could hardly wait to turn in their popular classmates—the “good guys”—who fouled. (D)Some of them, like the stereotypes of mothers-in-law or cops, are dinned into us by the stock jokes we hear and repeat.