Stereotypes of Social Groups in Germany in Terms of Warmth and Competence

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Asbrock
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Judgment ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
German Student ◽  
Stable Clusters ◽  
Relevant Social Groups

The stereotype content model says that warmth and competence are fundamental dimensions of social judgment. This brief report analyzes the cultural stereotypes of relevant social groups in a German student sample (N = 82). In support of the model, stereotypes of 29 societal groups led to five stable clusters of differing warmth and competence evaluations. As expected, clusters cover all four possible combinations of warmth and competence. The study also reports unique findings for the German context, for example, similarities between the perceptions of Turks and other foreigners. Moreover, it points to different stereotypes of lesbians and gay men.

The Stereotype Content of Sexual Orientation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 458-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trenton D. Mize ◽  
Bianca Manago
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Lesbian Women ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Orientation Group

The stereotype content model provides a powerful tool to examine influential societal stereotypes associated with social groups. We theorize how stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and a group’s status in society combine to influence societal views of sexual orientation groups—placing particular emphasis on stereotypes of warmth and competence. In two survey experiments, we collect quantitative measures of stereotype content and open-response items on the stereotypes of bisexual individuals. We predict—and find—that gay men and lesbian women face disadvantaging stereotypes; bisexual men and women, however, face the most severely negative stereotypes of any sexual orientation group—with aggregate judgments of low warmth and competence. In the second study, using a diverse sample, we show that stereotypes about sexual orientation groups are largely culturally consensual. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of comparative approaches that consider both advantaged and disadvantaged groups to fully contextualize stereotypes of minority groups.

Animals as Social Objects

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Sevillano ◽  
Susan T. Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Social Perception ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Responses ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Behavioral Tendencies ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

Abstract. Nonhuman animals are typically excluded from the scope of social psychology. This article presents animals as social objects – targets of human social responses – overviewing the similarities and differences with human targets. The focus here is on perceiving animal species as social groups. Reflecting the two fundamental dimensions of humans’ social cognition – perceived warmth (benign or ill intent) and competence (high or low ability), proposed within the Stereotype Content Model ( Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002 ) – animal stereotypes are identified, together with associated prejudices and behavioral tendencies. In line with human intergroup threats, both realistic and symbolic threats associated with animals are reviewed. As a whole, animals appear to be social perception targets within the human sphere of influence and a valid topic for research.

Competent or Warm? A Stereotype Content Model Approach to Understanding Perceptions of Masculine and Effeminate Gay Television Characters

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Sink ◽  
Dana Mastro ◽  
Marko Dragojevic
Keyword(s):  
Gay Men ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Gay Male ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Television Characters ◽  
Model Approach

Invoking the stereotype content model (SCM), two studies examined how television portrayals of gay men are arrayed in terms of warmth and competence. Participants were exposed to a sitcom and asked about their perceptions of two leading gay male characters. Results suggest that effeminate portrayals are more stereotypical, warmer, and less competent than masculine gay characters, yet these characterizations did not differ in terms of perceived valence. This novel application of the SCM helps to more explicitly define stereotypicality in the context of televised portrayals of gay men and demonstrates the utility of the model in advancing media studies of stereotypes.

scholarly journals Stereotypes of Social Groups in Mainland China in Terms of Warmth and Competence: Evidence from a Large Undergraduate Sample

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3559
Author(s):  
Zouhui Ji ◽  
Yaping Yang ◽  
Xinfang Fan ◽  
Yuting Wang ◽  
Qiang Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Word List ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) has been validated in multiple countries and regions. However, previous validation studies in China have been limited by small sample size. The current research increased the sample size (n = 184 in the pilot study; n1 = 1315 and n2 = 268 in the formal study) to validate the SCM in mainland China in study 1. Supporting the SCM, 41 social groups were clustered into four quadrants based on warmth and competence dimensions. 35 of the 41 target groups (85.37%) receive ambivalent stereotype. Perceived warmth and competence were positively correlated (r = 0.585, p < 0.001). Status and competence were positively related (r = 0.81, p < 0.001), and competition and warmth were negatively related (r = −0.77, p < 0.001). In addition, 24 typical social groups were selected and a list of stereotype words for these groups was developed in study 2 (n1 = 48, n2 = 52). The implications of the emerging social groups and the applications of this stereotype word list are discussed.

scholarly journals The content of soccer club stereotypes – Perceptions of warmth and competence of German Bundesliga and English Premier League clubs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Kauff ◽  
Jens H. Hellmann ◽  
Dennis Nigbur ◽  
Frank Asbrock
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Premier League ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Psychological Models ◽  
English Premier League

One of the most prominent social-psychological models describing the content of stereotypes about social groups is the Stereotype Content Model. The model assumes that social groups can be clustered along the dimensions of warmth (How well-intentioned is a group?) and competence (How capable is a group to implement its intentions?). We used this model to describe consensually shared stereotypes about soccer clubs from the German Bundesliga and the English Premier League. Using online questionnaires, we asked 681 and 800 participants to rate warmth, competence of as well as general attitudes and certain emotions associated with clubs from the Bundesliga (Study 1) and the Premier League (Study 2). Results indicated that clubs in both leagues can be grouped into three clusters along the dimensions of warmth and competence. Our approach extends previous work that mainly focusses on unidimensional evaluations of clubs.

scholarly journals Differences in Explicit Stereotype Activation among Social Groups Based on the Stereotype Content Model: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence in Chinese Sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1001
Author(s):  
Yaping Yang ◽  
Katherine R. G. White ◽  
Xinfang Fan ◽  
Qiang Xu ◽  
Qing-Wei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Stereotype Activation ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
High Competence

The stereotype content model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick and Xu, 2002) identifies four basic categories of stereotyped social groups: high warmth-high competence (HW-HC), high warmth-low competence (HW-LC), low warmth-high competence (LW-HC), and low warmth-low competence (LW-LC). However, many of these groups have not been directly examined in stereotype activation research. The purpose of the present research was to extend stereotype activation research to groups that more fully represent those identified under the SCM. Employing explicit sequential priming task, participants responded to prime-target stimulus pairs that were either congruent or incongruent with stereotypes of social groups from all four SCM quadrants in two studies in the current investigation. Study 1 was to determine the behavioral pattern of explicit stereotype activation among four quadrants (the sample included 60 Chinese undergraduate students, 51%—female). Study 2 further employed event-related brain potentials (ERPs) technique to track the time course and electrophysiological underpinnings of explicit stereotype activation (the sample included 22 right-handed Chinese undergraduate students, 76%—female). In Study 1, participants responded more quickly and accurately on stereotype congruent trials than incongruent trials for all social groups except LW-LC groups. This reverse priming effect on LW-LC social groups in RTs was also replicated in Study 2. ERPs findings further showed that incongruent targets elicited larger N400 amplitudes than congruent targets for all four SCM quadrants. Moreover, congruent targets elicited larger P2 than incongruent targets, but only found for the LW-LC social groups. In addition, congruent targets elicited larger amplitudes of late positive component than incongruent targets for the low warmth (LW-LC and LW-HC) groups. Together, these results highlight the unique processing that LW-LC groups receive throughout the cognitive stream, ultimately manifesting in distinctive behavioral responses. Unconscious activation of egalitarian goals, disgust, and distrust accounts are discussed.

Stereotypes as Justifications of Prejudice

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1488-1498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian S. Crandall ◽  
Angela J. Bahns ◽  
Ruth Warner ◽  
Mark Schaller
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Information Interaction ◽  
Dimension Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Or History ◽  
Behavioral Discrimination

Three experiments investigate how stereotypes form as justifications for prejudice. The authors created novel content-free prejudices toward unfamiliar social groups using either subliminal (Experiment 1, N = 79) or supraliminal (Experiment 2, N = 105; Experiment 3, N = 130) affective conditioning and measured the consequent endorsement of stereotypes about the groups. Following the stereotype content model, analyses focused on the extent to which stereotypes connoted warmth or competence. Results from all three experiments revealed effects on the warmth dimension but not on the competence dimension: Groups associated with negative affect were stereotyped as comparatively cold (but not comparatively incompetent). These results provide the first evidence that—in the absence of information, interaction, or history of behavioral discrimination—stereotypes develop to justify prejudice.

scholarly journals Stereotypes of social groups in mainland China in terms of warmth and competence: Evidence from a large undergraduate sample

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zouhui Ji ◽  
Qing-Wei Chen ◽  
Xinfang Fan ◽  
徐强 ◽  
杨亚平
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Validation Studies ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Formal Study ◽  
Stereotype Content

The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) has been validated in multiple countries and regions. However, the previous validation studies in China were limited by small sample size. The current research enlarged sample size (n = 184 in pilot study and n = 1315 in formal study) to validate SCM in mainland China. Supporting the SCM, 41 social groups were clustered into four quadrants based on warmth and component dimensions. In addition, 24 typical social groups were selected and a list of stereotype words for these groups was developed. The implications of the emerging social groups and the applications of this stereotype words list were discussed.

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