Evidence for stereotype accommodation as an expression of immigrants’ socio-cognitive adaptation

Stanciu, Adrian; Vauclair, Christin‐Melanie; Rodda, Nicole

doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.07.003

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“…Stanciu and Vauclair (2018) argued that cross-cultural differences regarding stereotypes are a source of novel stereotype content that facilitates cognitive heuristic adaptation in immigrants. Immigrants can incorporate from the stereotype content learned in the host countries into preexisting stereotypes (Stanciu et al, 2019), a cognitive process termed stereotype accommodation. This approach addresses changes in stereotypes about social groups held by immigrants in general.…”

Section: Stereotype Accommodationmentioning

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“…From the perspective of individual members of a culture, this means an accurate awareness of the stereotype content existent in the culture. Immigrants are exposed to stereotype content prevailing in their origin-and hostcultures and can thereby reproduce both types of content (Stanciu et al, 2019). I examine here key propositions laid down by Stanciu and Vauclair (2018).…”

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“…Furthermore, duration of stay in the host culture is a core predictor of immigrants' cultural learning, and likewise of their stereotype accommodation (Sam & Berry, 2016;Stanciu et al, 2019). The longer is the stay in the host society, the greater are the chances that immigrants are confronted with situations wherein their preexisting knowledge structure (ways of acting, language, or social skills) is challenged and therefore modified.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A related issue is that the available datasets contained information regarding only meta-beliefs and thus it was impossible to test how proximal (similar) subjective beliefs held by immigrants were to the common beliefs of local population (Stanciu et al, 2019). Metabeliefs probe the stereotype content that is latent in people's minds and not whether the individuals also endorse it (Yzerbyt & Demoulin, 2012).…”

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“…Levy, 2009). Though recent evidence suggests that immigrants can incorporate stereotypes learned in the host culture into preexisting beliefsthe stereotype accommodation hypothesis (Stanciu & Vauclair, 2018;Stanciu, Vauclair, & Rodda, 2019)-no previous research has addressed this possibility in view of stereotypes concerning older people. Accommodated stereotypes specify that immigrants have become aware of the beliefs about older people's warmth and competencies that prevail in their host cultures, and that their own stereotype matches or is very similar to what is common among the local population.…”

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Stereotype accommodation concerning older people

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No previous research has addressed the fact that some individuals emigrate and must consequently acculturate into stereotypical beliefs about senior citizens that may differ from the predominant beliefs in their origin cultures. I argue that immigrants can integrate such novel content into preexisting stereotypes facilitating their stereotype accommodation. I here operationalize stereotype accommodation as the (in-)accurate perception of the stereotype prevailing in the host- and origin-cultures. Drawing on two multinational surveys (European Social Survey and World Value Survey), larger cross-cultural differences in the stereotype about older people’s warmth predicted more accurate perceptions of the host-cultural stereotype of older people’s warmth. I discuss the findings in the context of existing research on the effects of old-age stereotypes and propose possible theoretical bridges to (older) immigrants’ socio-cognitive adaptation and well-being due to cultural learning.

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Stereotype accommodation concerning older people

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F rom a cultural learning perspective, immigrants can integrate novel stereotypes learned in host countries into pre-existing stereotypes. Research has not previously addressed this possibility in relation to stereotypes specifically about older people. This cross-sectional study examines whether cultural differences concerning stereotypes about older people, duration of stay in the host culture and cultural orientation affect stereotype accommodation amongst immigrants from 40 host countries. In two multinational, country-representative datasets-the European Social Survey (ESS) and the World Value Survey (WVS)-stereotype accommodation is measured along dimensions of warmth and competence and operationalised as absolute differences between the meta-beliefs of immigrants and the corresponding average meta-beliefs of the general population in host countries and countries of origin. Complex regressions that corrected beta-coefficients at the individual level for country effects show that more meaningful cross-cultural differences in the stereotype about the social warmth of older people predicted that immigrants' meta-beliefs were less similar to the origin culture than the host culture. This finding is a first step towards understanding the effect that moving from one culture to another has on the stereotypes about old age held by immigrants, and, potentially, how this will impact their own well-being when they become old.

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Bilingual speakers are less sensitive to gender stereotypes in their foreign language

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Little is known about the interplay between the language of operation and gender stereotype processing. In this study, Polish–English (L1–L2) male and female bilinguals made meaningfulness judgments on L1 and L2 stereotypically congruent and incongruent as well as semantically correct and incorrect sentences. The results showed gender- and language-dependent modulations by sentence type within the N400 and Late Positive Complex (LPC) time frames. In females, semantically correct sentences converged with stereotypically congruent and incongruent conditions in both languages, indicating a deep-rooted internalization of gender stereotype-laden content. Conversely, males displayed a heightened gender-stereotypical bias only in L1. In L2, they exhibited a reduced sensitivity to gender stereotypes, whereby semantically incorrect sentences converged with both stereotypically congruent and incongruent conditions in the N400 time window and with stereotypically incongruent sentences in the LPC time frame. Altogether, the study extends the foreign language effect to the context of bilingual gender stereotype processing.

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Evidence for stereotype accommodation as an expression of immigrants’ socio-cognitive adaptation

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Stereotype accommodation concerning older people

Stereotype accommodation concerning older people

Stereotype accommodation concerning older people

Bilingual speakers are less sensitive to gender stereotypes in their foreign language

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