Cognitive models of stereotype change: (2) Perceptions of homogeneous and heterogeneous groups

Hewstone, Miles; Johnston, Lucy; Aird, Peter

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“…Although these were the British Conservative Party in Studies 1 and 2, and a rowing club from a conservative student association in Study 3, they all arguably represent somewhat homogeneous and clearly defined groups, as conservatives tend to be seen. Research has shown that stereotypes change more rapidly in the case of disconfirming evidence stemming from homogeneous groups as opposed to heterogeneous groups (Hewstone et al, 1992b). Future research could therefore include the perceived homogeneity of groups as an important factor influencing the ease with which single outgroup transgressions influence the outgroup stereotype.…”

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Dealing with deviants: The effectiveness of rejection, denial, and apologies on protecting the public image of a group

Leeuwen¹,

Bosch²,

Hopman³

2009

Euro J Social Psych

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Public transgressions by group members threaten the public image of a group when outside observers perceive them as representative of the group in general. In three studies, we tested the effectiveness of rejection of a deviant group member who made a racist comment in public, and compared this to several other strategies the group could employ to protect their image. In Study 1 (N ¼ 75) and Study 2 (N ¼ 51), the group was judged less racist after rejecting the deviant than after claiming a non-racist position or not responding to the transgression. Perceived typicality of the deviant partially mediated this effect in Study 2. In Study 3 (N ¼ 81), the group was judged least racist after forcing the deviant to apologize and as most racist after denying the severity of the transgression. Results also showed a negative side-effect of rejection. Perceived exclusion of the deviant contributed to a perception of the group as disloyal to its members, which resulted in a less favorable overall group evaluation. Potential benefits and risks of rejection, denial, and apologies are further discussed in the General Discussion.

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Dealing with deviants: The effectiveness of rejection, denial, and apologies on protecting the public image of a group

Leeuwen¹,

Bosch²,

Hopman³

2009

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Previous work on this issue has yielded inconsistent results. Some (e.g., Rehder & Hastie, 1996;Silka, 1981) have shown that, category homogeneity facilitates changes in beliefs about category characteristics following exposure to discrepant category information, whilst others have shown the opposite effect (Hewstone et al 1992). One explanation for this discrepancy is that the effects of variability depend on the temporal framing of the initial and discrepant category information.…”

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“…Studies across the two kinds of temporal construal have operationalised variability in different ways, used different kinds disconfirming information and measures of belief change (cf. Hewstone et al, 1992;Rehder & Hastie, 1996). It is possible that these differences in stimulus structure, rather than temporal construal underlie the discrepant findings.…”

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“…For example, Hewstone, Johnston and Aird (1992) examined the effects of perceived variability on stereotype change by presenting people with counter-stereotypic information about two occupational groups; accountants and teachers. Pilot testing of these groups revealed that teachers were generally perceived as a more variable or heterogeneous group than accountants.…”

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“…This can be contrasted with Hewstone et al (1992), where participants revised beliefs as they encountered a few novel instances from the same sample. In this scenario, participants have no particular reason to doubt their prior beliefs about the characteristics of teachers and accountants.…”

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Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

2010

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. Submissions to the conference were reviewed by the Program Committee, who came up with an excellent program of 106 presented papers (in three parallel-track sessions, and including eight submitted symposia) and 20 posters (on show throughout the conference, but highlighted in an enjoyable poster session over drinks on day 2). The full program, along with other information about the conference, remains online at http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09. The Australasian Society for Cognitive Science has had an intermittent formal existence, driven mainly by the organization of its string of enjoyable, successful, and highly sociable conferences, which have taken place roughly every two years since the inaugural conference, organized by Peter Slezak, at the University of New South Wales in 1990 (a full list of past conferences is appended below).At the 9 th conference at Macquarie, 163 people attended, including substantial numbers from overseas and interstate, enjoying both the sweet Sydney spring weather and three stimulating days of talks and talk. There was no specific theme, but in addition to specialist research papers within specific sub/disciplines, we encouraged integrative papers which forge connections between sub/disciplines. This integrative ideal also informed invitations to our five excellent keynote speakers: Stephen Crain (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science), Jakob Hohwy (Philosophy, Monash University), Jason Mattingley (Psychology & Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland), Thomas Metzinger (Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz; & Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany, and Barbara Tversky (Psychology, Stanford University; & Columbia University, USA). Versions of three of these keynote talks appear in these proceedings: the papers by Jason Mattingley and Thomas Metzinger have been published elsewhere.Perhaps because the cognitive science community in Australasia is relatively small, compared at least with our counterparts in Asia, Europe, and North America, it retains a thoroughly multidisciplinary atmosphere. The programme confirmed the striking pluralism of the contemporary cognitive sciences, drawing on many distinctive disciplines as researchers on cognition are looking both down into the brain and out into the environment. Most contributions were from psychologists, with sizable numbers from philosophy and linguistics: but many other areas were also represented, including computational neuroscience, neuropsychiatry, clinical psychology, computer science, human-computer interaction, anthropology, education, history and philosophy of science, cognitive archaeology, cognitive ethology, English literature, and cultural history.All those who had presented papers and posters were invited to submit revised versions, following the conference, as full contributions to the published Proceedings. All submissions were reviewed afresh, and revisions were submitted in early 2010: we are delighted to thank our team of reviewers for their hard and effective work.Fifty-seven p...

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Resisting change: information-seeking and stereotype change

Johnston

1996

Eur. J. Soc. Psychol.

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Cognitive models of stereotype change: (2) Perceptions of homogeneous and heterogeneous groups

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Dealing with deviants: The effectiveness of rejection, denial, and apologies on protecting the public image of a group

Dealing with deviants: The effectiveness of rejection, denial, and apologies on protecting the public image of a group

Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science

Resisting change: information-seeking and stereotype change

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