Hollywood Stereotypes Anthony Hopkins (right) plays the role of serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs. Characters like “Hannibal the Cannibal” tend to perpetuate stereotypes about people with psychological disorders, most of whom are not violent (Arkowitz & Lilienfeld, 2011; Fazel et al., 2009).
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