The Age of the Crowd: A Historical Treatise on Mass Psychology

Weinstein, Fred; Moscovici, Serge; Whitehouse, J. C.

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“…Statistical minorities are numerically anomalous and are thus perceived as distinctive and uncharacteristic (Halberstadt, Sherman, & Sherman, 2011;Mullen, 1991;Mullen & Hu, 1989). Indeed, Moscovici (1985) noted that people who are infrequent and uncommon are perceived as deviant because they diverge from the way that people tend to look and act in a society (the established pattern in society).…”

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Pattern deviancy aversion predicts prejudice via a dislike of statistical minorities.

Gollwitzer¹,

Marshall²,

Bargh³

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Research has documented an overlap between people’s aversion toward nonsocial pattern deviancy (e.g., a row of triangles with 1 triangle out of line) and their social prejudice. It is unknown which processes underlie this association, however, and whether this link is causal. We propose that pattern deviancy aversion may contribute to prejudice by heightening people’s dislike of statistical minorities. Infrequent people in a population are pattern deviant in that they disrupt the statistical regularities of how people tend to look, think, and act in society, and this deviancy should incite others’ prejudice. Nine studies (N = 1,821) supported this mediation. In Studies 1.1 and 1.2, adults’ and young children’s nonsocial pattern deviancy aversion related to disliking novel statistical minorities, and this dislike predicted prejudice against Black people. Studies 1.3 and 1.4 observed this mediation when experimentally manipulating pattern deviancy aversion, although pattern deviancy aversion did not directly impact racial prejudice. Study-set 2 replicated the proposed mediation in terms of prejudice against other commonly stigmatized individuals (e.g., someone with a physical disability). Importantly, we also found pattern deviancy aversion to affect such prejudice. Study-set 3 provided additional support for the mediation model. Pattern deviancy aversion predicted prejudice dependent on group-size, for instance, greater racial prejudice in cases where Black people are the statistical minority, but decreased racial prejudice when Black people are the statistical majority. Taken together, these findings indicate that people’s aversion toward pattern deviancy motivates prejudice, and that this influence is partially driven by a dislike of statistical minorities.

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Pattern deviancy aversion predicts prejudice via a dislike of statistical minorities.

Gollwitzer¹,

Marshall²,

Bargh³

2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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“…Para Moscovici (1961) la elaboración de mensajes y su adecuación a regularidades culturales específicas, implica un reconocimiento del papel mediador que cumple la difusión entre los grupos sociales y sus sistemas de valores. Asimismo, la difusión como forma de comunicación está dirigida no a un grupo definido de personas sino a la masa, entendida como un conjunto de diferentes grupos de personas unidos socialmente (Moscovici, 1985). Por otra parte, el enfoque de las noticias o el punto de vista particular que denotan una toma de posición implícita o explícita por parte de los periódicos es un factor imprescindible en el juicio del lector cuando los elige (Moscovici, 1961).…”

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“…In Moscovici's (1961) opinion, the crafting of messages and their adaptation to specific cultural norms implies recognition of the mediating role played by diffusion among social groups and their value systems. Likewise, diffusion as a form of communication is targeted not at a defined group of people but to the masses, meant as a set of different groups of socially conjoined people (Moscovici, 1985). The focus of the news or the particular viewpoint denoted by the newspapers' implicit or explicit position is a key factor in the readers' judgement when choosing which to read (Moscovici, 1961).…”

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Justice as social representation: diffusion and differential positioning / La justicia como representación social: difusión y posicionamientos diferenciales

Barreiro

Gaudio

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International Journal of Social Psychology: Revista de Psicolog

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the diffusion process of social representations of justice by the press and their appropriation by readers. Two simultaneous cross-sectional studies were carried out. Study 1 analysed the meaning and the frequency of the word justice in the most important newspaper in Buenos Aires. The results indicate that the representation of justice has a retributive and institutional meaning. Study 2 investigated university students' social representations of justice (N = 404) through a word association technique. The results showed that the central core of social representation has a retributive and institutional meaning, similar to the representations diffused by the most important newspaper. Nevertheless, significant differences were found with regard to the value attached to justice depending on the newspaper that the participants claimed to read. We can conclude that there is a mutual constitutive circular movement between the social representation of justice diffused by the newspapers and university students' social representations. Moreover, the differences identified in the way justice was evaluated in the peripheral elements might express the existence of different positionings related to a hegemonic social representation.

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The Age of the Crowd: A Historical Treatise on Mass Psychology

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Pattern deviancy aversion predicts prejudice via a dislike of statistical minorities.

Pattern deviancy aversion predicts prejudice via a dislike of statistical minorities.

Justice as social representation: diffusion and differential positioning / La justicia como representación social: difusión y posicionamientos diferenciales

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