Predicting intergroup bias: the interactive effects of implicit theory and social identity.
This research sought to integrate the implicit theory approach and the social identity approach to understanding biases in intergroup judgment. The authors hypothesized that a belief in fixed human character would be associated with negative bias and prejudice against a maligned group regardless of the perceiver's social identity. By contrast, a belief in malleable human character would allow the perceiver's social identity to guide intergroup perception, such that a common ingroup identity that includes the maligned group would be associated with less negative bias and prejudice against the maligned group than would an exclusive identity. To test these hypotheses, a correlational study was conducted in the context of the Hong Kong 1997 political transition to examine Hong Kong Chinese's perceptions of Chinese Mainlanders, and an experimental study was conducted in the United States to examine Asian Americans' perception of African Americans. Results from both studies supported the authors' predictions.
Hong
Ying-yi
YY
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 61820, USA. yyhong@uiuc.edu
Coleman
Jill
J
Chan
Gloria
G
Wong
Rosanna Y M
RY
Chiu
Chi-yue
CY
Hansen
Ian G
IG
Lee
Sau-lai
SL
Tong
Yuk-yue
YY
Fu
Ho-ying
HY
D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012933:Social Identification