scholarly journals Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample

2020 ◽  
pp. 194855062097620
Author(s):  
Priyanka Khatry ◽  
Kunalan Manokara ◽  
Lasana T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
The Relationship

A perceiver’s socioeconomic status (SES) should influence social perceptions toward others. However, there is little evidence for this effect within and beyond Western samples. We hence evaluate the relationship between perceiver SES and dehumanized perception in a society where status is historically defined: India. Across two studies, we hypothesized that perceiver SES would predict dehumanization toward societal outcasts—beggars—and norm violators. Replicating previous work, in Study 1, upper SES perceivers dehumanized beggars more than lower SES perceivers; accounted for by low self-reported contact likelihood. In Study 2, norm violators were perceived as less human but more so by lower rather than upper SES perceivers. This novel finding was partially explained by perceivers viewing female violators as less prototypical, aligned with theorizing in gender research. Our results indicate that SES influences dehumanization via contact likelihood as well as the perceived normativity of a targets’ behavior.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a non-WEIRD sample

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priyanka Khatry ◽  
Kunalan Manokara ◽  
Lasana Harris
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
The Relationship

A perceiver’s socioeconomic status (SES) should influence social perceptions towards others. However, there is little evidence for this effect within and beyond Western samples. We hence evaluate the relationship between perceiver SES and dehumanized perception in a society where status is historically defined: India. Across two studies, we hypothesized that perceiver SES would predict dehumanization towards societal outcasts – beggars – and norm-violators. Replicating previous work, in Study 1, upper-SES perceivers dehumanized beggars more than lower-SES perceivers; accounted for by low self-reported contact-likelihood. In Study 2, norm-violators were perceived as less human; but more so by lower rather than upper-SES perceivers. This novel finding was partially explained by perceivers viewing female violators as less prototypical, aligned with theorizing in gender research. Our results indicate that SES influences dehumanization via contact-likelihood, as well as the perceived normativity of a targets’ behavior.

The ideal victim through other(s’) eyes

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Alice Bosma ◽  
Eva Mulder ◽  
Antony Pemberton
Keyword(s):  
Individual Level ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Following up on the illuminating article ‘The Ideal Victim’ by Nils Christie, this chapter expands on and reacts to its key arguments. Christie assumes that the most important reasons for perceiving a victim as legitimate and blameless lie in the specific attributions of the victim, and those of the relationship between victim and offender. The article aims at expanding these two arguments on the basis of more contemporary theories in victimology such as the Stereotype Content Model and the Moral Typecasting Theory. However, the importance of two observer related aspects that Christie leaves underdeveloped will also be emphasized. Firstly, the individual’s sense of threat and subsequent coping when confronted with a victim will be discussed. Secondly, the society’s particular interests and values at the time of victimization will be considered. The concept of framing is of particular importance in both aspects, because it can be used to explain how victims may (ex-post) be accepted as ideal or non-ideal, irrelevant of their ‘objective’ attributes, but dependent on the framer, either on collective or individual level.

scholarly journals Using the Semantic Differential Technique to Assess Stereotypes toward Individuals with Disabilities: The Relevance of Warmth and Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Cristina Jenaro Río ◽  
Noelia Flores Robaina ◽  
Jesús López Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Social Judgments ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Semantic Differential Technique

This study analyzes social perceptions towards groups with different types of disability, as well as the relationship between the judgments towards these groups, oneself and other significant individuals. The assessment was carried out using a Semantic Differential scale completed by181 participants. Results supported the Stereotype Content Model, as the different groups with disabilities were perceived in a more uniform way than those who did not share this label, and people with intellectual disability elicited paternalistic feelings. The results also support a two-factor model to explore the content of the stereotypes. Understanding the factors that contribute to the formation of social judgments is key to the implementation of actions that modify stereotypes and prejudices and promote equity.

The Tourist Stereotype Model: Positive and Negative Dimensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Wing Sun Tung ◽  
Brian Edward Melville King ◽  
Serene Tse
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Destination Management Organizations ◽  
Additional Sample

This research proposes a measurement model to evaluate tourist stereotypes. Study 1 assesses the positive and negative tourist stereotypes that Hong Kong residents hold toward Chinese outbound tourists by connecting previous research on stereotypes from the Princeton Trilogy and from the stereotype content model. Six positive stereotypes were identified across two dimensions (i.e., Approachable: friendly, sincere, and good; and Competent: intelligent, industrious, and competent) as well as six inappropriate biases across two factors (i.e., Boastful: materialistic and loud; Rude: unreasonable, immoral, rude, and uncivilized). Study 2 provides further support for the measurement model by using an additional sample to investigate tourist self-stereotypes. Collectively, studies 1 and 2 contribute to the tourism literature by highlighting the dynamics involved in (self)-stereotyping that are relevant for destination management organizations (DMOs) and public policymakers involved in managing public perceptions of tourist stereotypes.

scholarly journals BENEVOLENT AGEISM: THE CORRELATES OF OVERACCOMMODATION TOWARDS OLDER ADULTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S970-S971
Author(s):  
Jennifer F Sublett ◽  
Toni L Bisconti
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Predictive Utility ◽  
Older Adulthood ◽  
Stereotype Content Model ◽  
Content Model ◽  
Stereotype Content ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
The Face ◽  
Perceived Age

Abstract Using the Stereotype Content Model as a framework for understanding ageism, our two objectives are (1) examining the predictive utility of benevolent ageism on well-being outcomes and (2) identifying conditional relationships between sex, perceived age, benevolent ageism, and well-being outcomes. In a snowball sample of 150 older adults who were 65 years old and older, we examined sex, perceived age, ageism, environmental mastery, and depression. Our benevolent ageism scale is an expanded version of the Ambivalent Ageism Scale that included additional items of accommodation created by us. Environmental mastery and depression were assessed by standard, internally valid, measures. Using regression analyses, we found that benevolent ageism predicted depression above and beyond hostile ageism. Additionally, benevolent ageism uniquely predicted environmental mastery for men, whereas hostile ageism uniquely predicted environmental mastery and depression for women. Finally, perceived age was a better predictor of well-being than chronological age. It is essential to consider how benevolent ageism relates to well-being due to the tenets of the Stereotype Content Model. Additionally, delineating the ways that sex and perceived age contribute to double jeopardy vs. crisis competence in the face of benevolence will lead to a more intricate understanding of the paths in which overaccommodative behaviors relate to well-being in older adulthood.

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