Tożsamość, współzależność i zagrożenie a skłonność do stereotypizacji

Joanna Roszak , Anna Kwiatkowska

Abstract

The study’s aim was to check if and to what extent factors known to influence stereotyping—type of identity, interdependence and anxiety based on partner’s high status—interact. Literature on the subject suggests that activation of social identity makes us more likely to use an outgroup’s stereotype to describe its members, while personal identity activation should diminish this tendency. Also, interdependence should sensitize us to non-stereotypical information. Anxiety, on the other hand, should raise our stereotyping tendencies. In the study were activated personal versus social identity. Also, conditions of interdependence versus no-interdependence and anxiety versus no-anxiety were created. Stereotyping was measured by obtaining participants’ reaction times while ascribing stereotypical attributes to an outgroup representative. It turned out that interdependence’s influence on stereotyping diminishes in social identity condition. Interdependence, however, heightens stereotyping in personal identity and anxiety condition.