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Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
Author(s) -
Durante Federica,
Fiske Susan T.,
Kervyn Nicolas,
Cuddy Amy J. C.,
Akande Adebowale Debo,
Adetoun Bolanle E.,
Adewuyi Modupe F.,
Tserere Magdeline M.,
Ramiah Ananthi Al,
Mastor Khairul Anwar,
Barlow Fiona Kate,
Bonn Gregory,
Tafarodi Romin W.,
Bosak Janine,
Cairns Ed,
Doherty Claire,
Capozza Dora,
Chandran Anjana,
Chryssochoou Xenia,
Iatridis Tilemachos,
Contreras Juan Manuel,
CostaLopes Rui,
González Roberto,
Lewis Janet I.,
Tushabe Gerald,
Leyens JacquesPhilippe,
Mayorga Renée,
Rouhadim N.,
Castro Vanessa Smith,
Perez Rolando,
RodríguezBailón Rosa,
Moya Miguel,
Morales Marente Elena,
Palacios Gálvez Marisol,
Sibley Chris G.,
Asbrock Frank,
Storari Chiara C.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1111/bjso.12005
Subject(s) - ambivalence , inequality , economic inequality , stereotype (uml) , social psychology , system justification , psychology , life expectancy , social inequality , demographic economics , sociology , economics , political science , demography , mathematical analysis , population , mathematics , ideology , politics , law
Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model ( SCM ) argues that ambivalence―perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both―may help maintain socio‐economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37 cross‐national samples from E urope, the A mericas, O ceania, A sia, and A frica investigates how groups' overall warmth‐competence, status‐competence, and competition‐warmth correlations vary across societies, and whether these variations associate with income inequality ( G ini index). More unequal societies report more ambivalent stereotypes, whereas more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: Income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images.