The instrumental use of group prototypicality judgments
Abstract: Of bikers, teachers and Germans: Groups’ diverging views about their prototypicality. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 385–400] have shown that ingroup members often tend to judge the ingroup as more prototypical of the superordinate group than other subgroups. In this paper, we argue that, in addition to the motivational processes that have been posited to explain this phenomenon, prototypicality judgments may vary according to instrumental considerations. In particular, those who believe their ingroup interest to be undermined by remaining part of the common group will downplay ingroup’s prototypicality as a way to sustain their separatist position. In a first study (N = 63), we found that Scottish respondents who support Scottish independence judged the Scots to be less prototypical of Britain than the English, as compared with Scots who do not support independence. In a second study (N = 191), we manipulated the rhetorical context within which prototypicality judgments
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ; 44 (2008) 6 ; 1425-1435
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2008
- Creator
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Sindic, Denis
Reicher, Stephen D.
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10.1016/j.jesp.2008.05.007
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-267533
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Reicher, Stephen D.
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