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Positive Stereotype (positive + stereotype)
Selected AbstractsIngroup identification moderates stereotype change in reaction to ingroup devianceEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2003Paul Hutchison An experiment (N,=,98) investigated the moderating effect of ingroup identification on reactions to deviant ingroup members. We measured psychology students' level of identification with the group ,psychologists' and presented them with information about either a normative or deviant psychologist. Participants completed an ingroup stereotype measure either before or after reading about and evaluating the target psychologist. High identifiers expressed a more positive stereotype of the ingroup after, compared to before, reading about a deviant ingroup member. High identifiers also expressed a more positive stereotype of the ingroup after reading about a deviant than after reading about a normative ingroup member. By contrast, low identifiers' stereotype judgements were relatively unaffected by the target information. The target evaluation ratings indicate that high identifiers were more positive than low identifiers towards the normative ingroup member, but were more negative than low identifiers towards the deviant. The results point to the greater motivational demands on high identifiers to maintain a positive image of the group. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Stereotypes, Asian Americans, and Wages: An Empirical Strategy Applied to Computer Use at WorkAMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY, Issue 2 2009Sanae Tashiro This article examines the effect on wages of the Asian-American stereotype as mathematically and technically adept, and the role this stereotype may play in explaining racial wage differences. We propose an empirical strategy to examine the influence of stereotypes on labor market outcomes, with a specific application to the wage premium associated with computer use at work. Using Current Population Survey data, ordinary least squares estimates do not provide compelling evidence that a positive stereotype affects wages for Asian Americans. [source] Perceived in-group and out-group stereotypes among Brazilian foreign language studentsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, Issue 2 2001Linda Gentry El-Dash Our research over the past few years on the attitudes of Brazilians towards the English language suggests that socio-psychological and socio-cultural aspects of motivation may be just as operative in foreign language learning as in second language acquisition. This article presents the results of a study of stereotypical perceptions of ten foreign populations by 164 Brazilian university students studying diverse foreign languages. Socio-cultural stereotypes were investigated using bipolar adjective scales paired in a Likert-type format. A factor analysis of the revealed stereotypes suggested a three-factor system is at work, consisting of conscientiousness (work-related values), social agreeableness and personal warmth. Evidence was found for the hypothesis that students studying a foreign language tend to have relatively positive stereotypes of the speakers of that language, but the picture is quite complex, with attraction and stereotyping of target-language speakers being linked to two different sets of values within the Brazilian population studied. [source] Comparisons of Australians and Japanese on group-based cooperationASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2005Toshio Yamagishi A cross-societal experiment with 49 Australian and 56 Japanese participants examined if the group heuristic account of ingroup-favoring behavior in a Prisoner's Dilemma game can be extended beyond the minimal group situation to a situation involving an enduring social category (i.e. participant's nationality). Participants played a Prisoner's Dilemma game five times, each time with a different partner. Two of the five partners were ingroup members, two were outgroup members, and the nationality of one partner was not known. Furthermore, one of the two ingroup (or outgroup) partners knew that the participant was a member of the same (or the other) nationality, and the other did not know it. The results indicated that the knowledge that the partner had about the nationality of the participant exerted an effect only when the partner was an ingroup member. No major difference was found between Australian and Japanese participants. An outgroup-favoring cooperation pattern was observed, but that pattern was shown to be a result of fairness concerns among Australian participants and of positive stereotypes of Australians among Japanese participants. [source] | |||||||||||||