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Framed and misfortuned: identity salience and the whiff of scandal
Author(s) -
Stapel Diederik A.,
Koomen Willem,
Spears Russell
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199903/05)29:2/3<397::aid-ejsp936>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , psychology , social psychology , identity (music) , cognitive psychology , aesthetics , philosophy
In this study a questionnaire was administered via e‐mail to Dutch social psychologists. We asked to what extent respondents felt that a widely published plagiarism scandal involving a Dutch psychologist affected themselves and the image of their profession. As predicted, findings indicate that the impact of the scandal was dependent on the salient identity of both the perceiver (‘social psychologist’ or ‘psychologist’) and the stimulus target (‘clinical psychologist’ or ‘psychologist’). Respondents were more affected by the plagiarism scandal when the self‐category that was made salient matched the category of the target of the scandal. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.