Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations

By Sheri R. Levy, Chi-Yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong. 2006

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of Self-Censorship at Work (2011, background): “Once formed, implicit theories tend to endure because people seek out anecdotal verification rather than falsification of beliefs that serve self-protective or self-enhancing aims (Furnham, 1988; Levy et al., 2006; Wyer, 2004).”
When Humanizing Brands Goes Wrong: The Detrimental Effect of Brand Anthropomorphization amid Product Wrongdoings (2013, background): “However, implicit theories can be activated by use of changes in real-life occurrences, exposure to persuasive arguments, or media evidence that advocates a particular When Humanizing Brands Goes Wrong / 85 theory view (Dweck, Chiu, and Hong 1995; Levy, Chiu, and Hong 2006).”
Implicit Leadership and Followership Theories “in the wild”: Taking stock of information-processing approaches to leadership and followership in organizational settings (2013, background): “As a matter of fact, in Lord et al.’s (1984) list, the trait ‘creative’ was included in the non-leader attributes list which clearly indicates that creativity is not viewed as a core characteristic of leadership (Epitropaki, 2012).”
Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective (2006, background): “Increasingly, more attention is given to processes of legitimisation in social relations such as the role of ideologies (see Jost & Major, 2001 ) and lay theories (Levy, Chin, & Hong, 2006 ).”
Children's Social and Moral Reasoning About Exclusion (2007, result): “In other related developmental intergroup research, children’s lay theories (conventional knowledge) about what it means to work in a group, and whether effort or intrinsic ability is what counts, have been shown to be significantly related to whether they view the denial of allocation of resources ”