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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
psychology
Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 52, No. 4, Year 2013
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Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model (SCM) argues that ambivalence-perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both-may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37 cross-national samples from Europe, the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Africa investigates how groups' overall warmth-competence, status-competence, and competition-warmth correlations vary across societies, and whether these variations associate with income inequality (Gini index). More unequal societies report more ambivalent stereotypes, whereas more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: Income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images. © 2012 The British Psychological Society.
Authors & Co-Authors
Durante, Federica
Italy, Milan
Università Degli Studi Di Milano-bicocca
Fiske, Susan T.
United States, Princeton
Princeton University
Kervyn, Nicolas O.
Belgium, Louvain-la-neuve
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium, Brussels
Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
Cuddy, Amy J.C.
United States, Boston
Harvard Business School
Akande, Adebowale Williams
South Africa, Pretoria
Institute of Research on Global Issues
Adetoun, Bolanle Eliz
Nigeria, Asokoro
Economic Community of West African States, Nigeria
Adewuyi, Modupe Fal
United States, Atlanta
Emory University
Tserere, Magdeline Makgauta
South Africa, Pretoria
National Prosecuting Authority
Ramiah, Ananthi Al
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
Singapore, Singapore City
Yale-nus College
Mastor, Khairul A.
Malaysia, Bangi
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Barlow, Fiona Kate
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Bonn, Gregory
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Malaysia, Bandar Sunway
Monash University Malaysia
Tafarodi, Romin W.
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Bosak, Janine
Switzerland, Bern
University of Bern
Ireland, Dublin
Dcu Business School
Cairns, Ed
United Kingdom, Coleraine
Ulster University
Doherty, Claire
United Kingdom, Coleraine
Ulster University
Capozza, Dora
Italy, Padua
Università Degli Studi Di Padova
Chandran, Anjana
Unknown Affiliation
Chryssochoou, Xenia
Greece, Athens
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Iatridis, Tilemachos
Greece, Rethymnon
University of Crete
Contreras, Juan Manuel
United States, Princeton
Princeton University
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Costa-Lopes, Rui
Portugal, Lisbon
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
González, Roberto
Chile, Santiago
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Lewis, Janet I.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard University
Tushabe, Gerald
Uganda, Kampala
Makerere University
Leyens, Jacques Philippe
Belgium, Louvain-la-neuve
Université Catholique de Louvain
Mayorga, Renée
Peru, Lima
Universidad de Lima
Rouhana, Nadim N.
United States, Medford
Tufts University
Castro, Vanessa Smith
Costa Rica, San Jose
Universidad de Costa Rica
Perez, Rolando
Costa Rica, San Jose
Universidad de Costa Rica
Rodríguez-Bailón, Rosa
Spain, Granada
Universidad de Granada
Moya, Miguel C.
Spain, Granada
Universidad de Granada
Morales Marente, Elena
Spain, Huelva
Universidad de Huelva
Palacios Gálvez, María Soledad
Spain, Huelva
Universidad de Huelva
Sibley, Chris G.
New Zealand, Auckland
The University of Auckland
Asbrock, Frank
Germany, Marburg
Philipps-universität Marburg
Storari, Chiara C.
Switzerland, Lausanne
Université de Lausanne Unil
Statistics
Citations: 37
Authors: 37
Affiliations: 33
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/bjso.12005
ISSN:
01446665
e-ISSN:
20448309