Open AccessMutual stereotypes of Croats, Bosnjaks and Serbs in the light of two factors theory of prejudice
Author(s) -
Nebojša Petrović
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sociologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2406-0712
pISSN - 0038-0318
DOI - 10.2298/soc0301015p
Subject(s) - morality , social psychology , prejudice (legal term) , psychology , dimension (graph theory) , negativity effect , competence (human resources) , political science , law , mathematics , pure mathematics
Since a number of empirical research have not shown expected correlation between negative stereotypes and prejudices, modern researchers have proposed that stereotypes should not be treated as unidimensional construct. The two factors theory of stereotypes has been proposed. First dimension is competence (superior-inferior), and second is beneficence or morality (good-bad). Only second one has high correlation with prejudices. Our research, conducted on 617 subjects from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Hercegovina, shows that mutual negative stereotypes among these three nations are still dominant, and that negativity has mainly been found on the second dimension, just as mentioned theory proposed