TY - JOUR
T1 - Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: how societies mind the gap
AU - Durante, Federica
AU - Fiske, Susan T
AU - Kervyn, Nicolas
AU - Cuddy, Amy J C
AU - Akande, Adebowale (Debo)
AU - Adetoun, Bolanle E
AU - Adewuyi, Modupe F
AU - Tserere, Magdeline M
AU - Al Ramiah, Ananthi
AU - Mastor, Khairul Anwar
AU - Barlow, Fiona Kate
AU - Bonn, Gregory
AU - Tafarodi, Romin W
AU - Bosak, Janine
AU - Cairns, Ed
AU - Doherty, Claire
AU - Capozza, Dora
AU - Chandran, Anjana
AU - Chryssochoou, Xenia
AU - Iatridis, Tilemachos
AU - Contreras, Juan Manuel
AU - Costa-Lopes, Rui
AU - Gonzalez, Roberto
AU - Lewis, Janet I
AU - Tushabe, Gerald
AU - Leyens, Jacques-Philippe
AU - Mayorga, Renee
AU - Rouhana, Nadim N
AU - Smith Castro, Vanessa
AU - Perez, Rolando
AU - Rodriguez-Bailon, Rosa
AU - Moya, Miguel
AU - Marente, Elena Morales
AU - Galvez, Marisol Palacios
AU - Sibley, Chris G
AU - Asbrock, Frank
AU - Storari, Chiara C
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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
AB - 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
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23039178
U2 - 10.1111/bjso.12005
DO - 10.1111/bjso.12005
M3 - Article
SN - 0144-6665
VL - 52
SP - 726
EP - 746
JO - British Journal of Social Psychology
JF - British Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 4
ER -
