A Multicultural Study of Stereotyping in English-Speaking Countries

McAndrew, Francis T.; Akande, Adebowale; Bridgstock, Ruth; Mealey, Linda; Gordon, Stephen C.; Scheib, Joanna E.; Akande-Adetoun, Bolanle E.; Odewale, Funmi; Morakinyo, Asefon; Nyahete, Patricia; Mubvakure, Geradine

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“…Indeed, this body of work represents the significant exception to the dearth of research at the intersection of culture and stereotyping. A substantial number of papers have documented beliefs about the characteristics of ingroups and outgroups around the world (Best & Williams, 2001;Bond, 1986;Costa, Terracciano, & McCrae, 2001;Cuddy et al, 2009;Krueger, 1996;Leach, Minescu, Poppe, & Hagendoom, 2008;Marin & Salazar, 1985;McAndrew et al, 2000;Poppe, 2001;Terracciano et al, 2005;Terracciano & McCrae, 2007;Walkey & Chung, 1996). Yet, none of these diverse studies has reported that participants were perplexed by questions about stereotypes or were unable to complete the tasks.…”

Section: The Incidence and Application Of Stereotypesmentioning

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Culture and Stereotyping Processes: Integration and New Directions

Williams

Spencer‐Rodgers

2010

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

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Stereotyping is one of the largest and most enduring research areas in social and personality psychology; many of the processes by which stereotypes are formed, maintained, and applied are now well understood. Yet, little is known about the degree to which stereotyping processes apply outside of North American and Western European contexts. This theoretical paper aims to serve as a starting point for researchers interested in the intersection of culture and stereotyping. We review the nascent literature documenting similarities and differences in intergroup perception across cultural groups and note areas in which the cross‐cultural and stereotyping literatures have explored common mechanisms that could be profitably integrated. Finally, we offer suggestions for future research that will greatly improve our understanding of how culturally influenced cognitive tendencies influence the perception of social groups and their members.

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Section: The Incidence and Application Of Stereotypesmentioning

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Culture and Stereotyping Processes: Integration and New Directions

Williams

Spencer‐Rodgers

2010

Social and Personality Psychology Compass

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“…Because interacting groups share the same social reality, they are likely to possess some evaluation-free, descriptive information about each other. A group's auto-stereotypes and the stereotypes held about the same group by other groups are often similar (McAndrew et al , 2000;Peabody, 1985). However, this is not the case when one group has little knowledge about another group -that is, when the group being judged and the judges themselves do not share the same reality.…”

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Differentiating in‐group favoritism from shared reality in intergroup perception

Dimdiņš

Montgomery

2004

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Two basic factors influence mutual ratings of social groups: in-group favoritism (related to the evaluative aspects of a rating) and the perception of shared reality (related to the descriptive aspects). In two studies, we examine the usefulness of Peabody's (1968) method of separating evaluative and descriptive aspects of rating in intergroup judgments. In Study 1, Latvian and Russian students made different evaluations of both groups, but the same groups agreed on the descriptive ratings. In Study 2, male and female psychology students rated each other from own, in-group, and out-group perspectives. The participants did not show any in-group favoritism in their own ratings, but they expected their fellow students to be in-group biased. The participants agreed on the descriptive ratings of both groups. The results demonstrate that shared reality influences intergroup ratings, despite differences in evaluations.

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“…These groups include Americans and Hong Kong Chinese (Bond, 1986), Latin Americans (Marín & Salazar, 1985), residents of English-speaking countries (McAndrew et al, 2000), Western Europeans (Koomen & Bähler, 1996), and Eastern Europeans (Poppe, 2001), among others. In these studies, members of each cultural group described their ingroup and the relevant outgroup(s) in terms of personality traits.…”

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Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups.

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Williams²,

Hamilton³

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In 3 studies, the authors tested the hypothesis that Chinese participants would view social groups as more entitative than would Americans and, as a result, would be more likely to infer personality traits on the basis of group membership-that is, to stereotype. In Study 1, Chinese participants made stronger stereotypic trait inferences than Americans did on the basis of a target's membership in a fictitious group. Studies 2 and 3 showed that Chinese participants perceived diverse groups as more entitative and attributed more internally consistent dispositions to groups and their members. Guided by culturally based lay theories about the entitative nature of groups, Chinese participants may stereotype more readily than do Americans when group membership is available as a source of dispositional inference.

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A Multicultural Study of Stereotyping in English-Speaking Countries

Cited by 22 publications

References 17 publications

Culture and Stereotyping Processes: Integration and New Directions

Culture and Stereotyping Processes: Integration and New Directions

Differentiating in‐group favoritism from shared reality in intergroup perception

Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups.

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