Exaggerating differences back and forth: Two levels of intergroup accentuation

IF 3.2 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

British Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI:10.1111/bjso.12699

Patrick Rothermund, Roland Deutsch

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Abstract

Social perceivers tend to exaggerate existing differences between groups, a phenomenon known as intergroup accentuation. In two preregistered experiments, we tested the hypothesis that accentuation originates in the initial learning of information about a novel group. In both experiments, perceivers exaggerated differences between two fictitious social groups that differed probabilistically in two dimensional traits. As hypothesized, accentuation was stronger for the group encountered second, confirming that accentuation originates partly in processes operating during the acquisition of group information. However, accentuation was also robust for the group encountered first, suggesting that it also occurs ‘backward’ even when group learning was unbiased. We discuss implications for stereotype formation generally and the perception of social minorities and out-groups specifically. As these groups are often encountered second in social reality, stereotypes of them might be particularly polarized.

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来回夸大差异:群体间的两个层次的强调。

社会感知者倾向于夸大群体之间存在的差异，这种现象被称为群体间强调。在两个预先注册的实验中，我们测试了一个假设，即重音起源于对新群体信息的初始学习。在这两个实验中，感知者夸大了两个虚构的社会群体在二维特征上的差异。正如假设的那样，第二组的重音更强，这证实了重音部分源于群体信息获取过程中的操作过程。然而，对于第一次遇到的小组来说，强调也很强大，这表明即使在小组学习是公正的情况下，它也会“落后”地发生。我们讨论了对刻板印象形成的影响，特别是对社会少数群体和外群体的看法。由于这些群体在社会现实中往往是次要的，对他们的刻板印象可能会特别两极分化。

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British Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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9.50

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7.40%

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.