THE PREJUDICED PERSONALITY REVISITED - PERSONAL NEED FOR STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF ERRONEOUS GROUP STEREOTYPES

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作者
SCHALLER, M [1 ]
BOYD, C [1 ]
YOHANNES, J [1 ]
OBRIEN, M [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TEXAS,DEPT PSYCHOL,ARLINGTON,TX
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10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.544
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Two studies explored the relation between personal need for structure( PNS)and a reasoning process through which stereotypes may form. Participants viewed information about the performance of group members on intelligence-related tasks and then indicated their inference strategies and impressions of the groups. Results indicated that high-PNS participants were more likely than low-PNS participants to form erroneous group stereotypes. Individual differences in attributional complexity and need for cognition also predicted stereotype formation under some conditions. The effects of PNS and other cognitive personality variables were weakened under conditions in which participants believed that they would have to justify their impressions publicly. Discussion focuses on processes underlying the relation between PNS and stereotype formation and on relations among personality, social context, and social inference.
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