The prejudiced personality revisited: Personal need for structure and formation of erroneous group stereotypes

Autor:	Mark Schaller, Carrie Boyd, Meredith O'Brien, Jonathan Yohannes
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	Need for cognition Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology Social perception media_common.quotation_subject Impression formation Stereotype Social group Personality Big Five personality traits Attribution Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 68:544-555
ISSN:	1939-1315 0022-3514
DOI:	10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.544
Popis:	Two studies explored the relation between personal need for structure (PNS) and a reasoning process through which stereotypes may form. Participants viewed information about the performance of group members on intelligence-related tasks and then indicated their inference strategies and impressions of the groups. Results indicated that high-PNS participants were more likely than low-PNS participants to form erroneous group stereotypes. Individual differences in attributional complexity and need for cognition also predicted stereotype formation under some conditions. The effects of PNS and other cognitive personality variables were weakened under conditions in which participants believed that they would have to justify their impressions publicly. Discussion focuses on processes underlying the relation between PNS and stereotype formation and on relations among personality, social context, and social inference
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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