Grigoryan, Lusine orcid.org/0000-0002-2077-1975, Jones, Bethan H., Cohrs, J. Christopher et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Differentiating Between Belief-Indicative and Status-Indicative Groups Improves Predictions of Intergroup Attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 1097–1112. ISSN 0146-1672
Abstract
Ingroup bias is often treated as the default outcome of intergroup comparisons. We argue that the mechanisms of impression formation depend on what information people infer from groups. We differentiate between belief-indicative groups that are more informative of beliefs and affect attitudes through ingroup bias and status-indicative groups that are more informative of status and affect attitudes through a preference for higher status. In a cross-cultural factorial experiment (Ntotal = 1,281), we demonstrate that when information about targets’ multiple group memberships is available, belief-indicative groups affect attitudes via ingroup bias, whereas status-indicative groups—via preference for higher status. These effects were moderated by social-structural context. In two follow-up studies (Ntotal = 451), we develop and validate a measure of belief- and status-indicativeness (BISI) of groups. BISI showed expected correlations with related constructs of entitativity and essentialism. Belief-indicativeness of groups was a better predictor of ingroup bias than entitativity and essentialism.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Study 1 was supported by the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), DFG project GSC263, number 49619654. Studies 2 and 3 were supported by the German Science Foundation (DFG) individual grant number 464524346. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. |
Keywords: | beliefs,ingroup bias,intersectional stereotyping,morality,status |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2023 09:40 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2025 00:12 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221092852 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/01461672221092852 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195970 |
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