ABSTRACT
We made the first attempt to reveal the content of a Hungarian national autostereotype in the early 1970s. At that time, the international literature on stereotypes was virtually at a standstill, but in fact the conditions for its radical renewal and rapid growth were maturing. The data on Psychological Abstracts reported by Ashmore and Del Boca (1981) are interesting in this respect: according to this report, after a few years of stagnation, the number of publications on stereotypes rose above 50, 100 and 200 in 1971, 1975, and 1977, respectively, and this number has probably been increasing ever since.
