And Yet They Move: The Impact of Direction of Deviance on Stereotype Change

Dolderer, Mirjam; Mummendey, Amélie; Rothermund, Klaus

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“…In line with this idea, Dolderer, Mummendey, and Rothermund (2009) found that information about outgroup members that was consistent with a negative group stereotype but even more extreme (i.e., less socially oriented and less helpful) was generalized to more negative views of the group stereotype. In contrast, stereotype-inconsistent information (i.e., more socially oriented and more helpful) did not affect the group stereotype.…”

Section: Negative Interpersonal Attitudes and Category Saliencementioning

confidence: 72%

Generalization of Positive and Negative Attitudes Toward Individuals to Outgroup Attitudes

Stark

Flache

Veenstra

2013

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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The generalization of attitudes toward individual outgroup members into attitudes toward the outgroup as a whole can affect intergroup relations. However, little is known about the relative strengths of the generalization of negative and positive interpersonal attitudes into attitudes about the outgroup. The unique contribution of negative (disliking) interpersonal attitudes to intergroup attitudes was examined and its strength was compared with the effect of positive (liking) interpersonal attitudes, using cross-sectional (Study 1; N = 733, age 10-12) and longitudinal data (Study 2; N = 960, age 12-13). Disliking uniquely contributed to respondents' outgroup attitudes. The generalization of interpersonal liking and disliking was about equally strong in both studies. This underpins the importance of examining the effects of both positive and negative intergroup contact experiences on the formation of outgroup attitudes.

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Section: Negative Interpersonal Attitudes and Category Saliencementioning

confidence: 72%

Generalization of Positive and Negative Attitudes Toward Individuals to Outgroup Attitudes

Stark

Flache

Veenstra

2013

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…For instance, a number of studies found that exposure to Barack Obama at the time of the 2008 U.S. presidential election reduced anti-Black prejudice (Bernstein et al, 2010;Columb and Plant, 2011;Plant et al, 2009). However, attitude generalization can also result in more negative outgroup attitudes if the opinion about individual group members is negative (Dolderer et al, 2009). In fact, recent research has shown that students in school classes generalize positive and negative attitudes they have toward classmates from other ethnic groups to the same extent (Stark et al, 2013).…”

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Liking and disliking minority-group classmates: Explaining the mixed findings for the influence of ethnic classroom composition on interethnic attitudes

Stark

Mäs

Flache

2015

Social Science Research

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Research on the influence of the number of ethnic minority group classmates on majority group students' interethnic attitudes produced conflicting results. With data from 728 early adolescents, we found that the effect of the ethnic class composition depends on two opposing student-level mechanisms. First, majority group students who liked a larger number of minority group classmates developed more positive attitudes toward minority groups. Second, students who disliked a larger number of outgroup classmates developed more negative outgroup attitudes. In our sample, these two effects neutralized each other because the sample consisted of about the same number of students that liked most of their outgroup classmates and students that disliked most outgroup classmates. Results were consistent in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. These results support a new interpretation of the mixed findings in past research, suggesting that past studies may have differed in the number of students who liked and disliked outgroup classmates.

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“…Castelli, Pavan, Ferrari, & Kashima, 2009;Dolderer, Mummendey, & Rothermund, 2009;Kashima, 2000;Plaks et al, 2001;Richards & Hewstone, 2001;Sherman, Stroessner, Conrey, & Azam, 2005;Vonk, 2002). The evidence for stereotypes' robustness to change is impressive.…”

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The ISI Change phenomenon: When contradicting one stereotype changes another

Maris

Hoorens

2012

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Stereotype-incongruent information Stereotype learning paradigm Indirect Stereotype-Incongruence Induced (ISI) Change phenomenonWhen a population is perceived to consist of two mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups, the stereotypes that people form of these groups are likely to be interdependent. We predicted that stereotype-incongruent information about members of one group (target group) may then evoke change in the stereotype of another group (alternative group) even in the absence of any stereotype-incongruent information about members of the alternative group. We demonstrated this Indirect Stereotype-Incongruence Induced (ISI) Change phenomenon in two studies using novel groups (Study 1 and 2). The effect occurred when the incongruent information was about a competent target group (changing the stereotype about the less competent alternative group) but not when it was about an incompetent target group (Study 2). The ISI Change phenomenon implies that stereotypes may change even in the absence of directly stereotype-incongruent information.

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And Yet They Move: The Impact of Direction of Deviance on Stereotype Change

Cited by 10 publications

References 115 publications

Generalization of Positive and Negative Attitudes Toward Individuals to Outgroup Attitudes

Generalization of Positive and Negative Attitudes Toward Individuals to Outgroup Attitudes

Liking and disliking minority-group classmates: Explaining the mixed findings for the influence of ethnic classroom composition on interethnic attitudes

The ISI Change phenomenon: When contradicting one stereotype changes another

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