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Ability to take an out–group’s perspective in explaining positive and negative behaviors
Author(s) -
Austers Ivars
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00308
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , attribution , psychology , categorization , ethnic group , social psychology , judgement , latvian , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , artificial intelligence , sociology , computer science , anthropology
A total of 251 Latvian and Russian schoolteachers explained positive and negative behaviours from their own perspective and from the perspective of an ethnic out–group. The results were in line with the attributional pattern usually found in studies using Hewstone’s direct perspective of judgement, when participants are asked to take the perspective of an ethnic out–group. That is, there was an outcome effect in causal attributions for in–group actors and a categorization effect for negative behaviour from the imagined (out–group’s) perspective. The attributions from the direct perspective only partly replicated the commonly found pattern. The results support Montgomery’s perspective theory.