title: Culture and group perception: dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups.
abstract: In 3 studies, the authors tested the hypothesis that Chinese participants would view social groups as more entitative than would Americans and, as a result, would be more likely to infer personality traits on the basis of group membership--that is, to stereotype. In Study 1, Chinese participants made stronger stereotypic trait inferences than Americans did on the basis of a target's membership in a fictitious group. Studies 2 and 3 showed that Chinese participants perceived diverse groups as more entitative and attributed more internally consistent dispositions to groups and their members. Guided by culturally based lay theories about the entitative nature of groups, Chinese participants may stereotype more readily than do Americans when group membership is available as a source of dispositional inference.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. jrodgers@uvic.ca
authors: Julie
authors: J
authors: Spencer-Rodgers
authors: Melissa J
authors: MJ
authors: Williams
authors: David L
authors: DL
authors: Hamilton
authors: Kaiping
authors: K
authors: Peng
authors: Lei
authors: L
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002605:Character; D002681:China; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D012933:Social Identification; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States