Social representations and memory: The case of AIDS

Echabe, Agustín Echebarría; Páez, Darío

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2420190605

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“…Why so few respondents had an accurate understanding of multiculturalism is an interesting issue. Moscovici (1973Moscovici ( , 1987 has frequently discussed the way that social representations are involved in the transformation of knowledge, and studies have shown that people select information for processing that is congruent with preexisting representations, and distort the recall of contradictory information (Echabe & Paez-Rovira, 1989). The results here appear to be another example of this phenomenon-of information being manipulated in order to retain a nonthreatening social representation of multiculturalism.…”

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Social Representations of Multiculturalism: A Faceted Analysis

Ginges

Cairns

2000

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This paper reports a study that examines how Australians are responding to the policy of multiculturalism. The aim of the study was to define different social representations of the policy. Multiple scalogram analysis (MSA) yielded 3 facets of social representations of multiculturalism (active/passive, substantiaVminimal, and threatlbenefit). Using these facets, subjects were categorized into social representation groups. The results illustrate the methodological utility of using facet theory techniques to study social representations.

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Social Representations of Multiculturalism: A Faceted Analysis

Ginges

Cairns

2000

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…These search (statistically) for groups of similar ratings or answers. So Group A might show common attitudes, beliefs, and attributions, which are consistent and coherent within Group A, while Group B shows another typical pattern which is consistent and coherent within Group B but not with those of Group A (e.g., Echabe & Rovira, 1989;Hewstone, Jaspars & Lalljee, 1982). This is important work, and I am not suggesting that it should stop.…”

Section: Social Representation Theorymentioning

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Some Recent and Future Developments in the Study of Social Representations

Guérin

1995

THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Social representation theory studies social knowledge created by groups which becomes objectified, as if it existed outside of social processes. In this paper, some new themes and directions for social representation research are discussed. Overall, it is suggested that more emphasis be placed back onto the group dynamics which create, change and maintain social representations.Too much emphasis, perhaps, has been put on finding and describing the objectified knowledges rather than the social processes which sustain them. In particular, more needs to be known about the groups themselves which create and maintain social representations, and the conditions for such groups' existence. The methods for research need to reflect the social processes over time and anthropological methods of research might help in this regard. It is then argued both that social relations are a prerequisite for social representations and that social representations can be utilized by groups for various functions. Both these points emphasize that social representations exist through, and are maintained by, group dynamics, which need to be studied in addition to descriptions of the content of social representations.

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“…Category-inconsistent information is more likely to be discounted when information is either complex or ambiguous (Echabe & Rovira, 1989;Lord, Ross, & Lepper, 1979). Therefore, the discounting hypothesis predicts that subjects will vote as a function of party line in Study I , when they are presented with candidates whose policy positions are predominantly but not completely inconsistent with their party label.…”

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Judging a Book by its Cover: The Effects of Candidate Party Label and issue Stands on Voting Behavior

Skitka

Robideau

1997

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Americans vote party lines; nothing predicts election outcomes as well. People may vote party lines because party candidates have views that accurately reflect the positions of their members, because party identification acts as a convenient cue that eliminates the need for greater information search or cognitive processing, or because party classification biases interpretation of other information people have about the candidates. To investigate these competing hypotheses for party effects on voter decision making, participants were presented with a choice between 2 candidates whose policy positions were more inconsistent than consistent with their party identification (Study l), or completely inconsistent with their party identification (Study 2). People voted as a function of party label in Study I, but issue stand emerged as a stronger predictor in Study 2 (although Democrats were more likely to cross party lines than Republicans). These results suggest that party identification influences how other information about the candidate is perceived and processed. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Social representations and memory: The case of AIDS

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Social Representations of Multiculturalism: A Faceted Analysis

Social Representations of Multiculturalism: A Faceted Analysis

Some Recent and Future Developments in the Study of Social Representations

Judging a Book by its Cover: The Effects of Candidate Party Label and issue Stands on Voting Behavior

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