Inclusion in a superordinate category, in-group prototypicality, and attitudes towards out-groups
By S. Waldzus, A. Mummendey. 2004
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We hypothesized that group members’ attitudes towards an out-group are negatively related to the in-group’s perceived relative prototypicality for a superordinate category, but only if both the in-group and out-group are included in this superordinate category. In Experiment 1 (N=40), Germans’ attitudes towards Poles were negatively correlated with the relative prototypicality of Germans when “Europe” (including Poles), but not when “West-Europe” (excluding Poles), was the superordinate category. In Experiment 2 (N=63), female single parents’ attitudes about the competence of single parents to raise children depended on the in-group’s relative prototypicality for “single parents” (including fathers), but not on their relative similarity to “mothers” (excluding fathers). Both experiments showed that inclusion in a superordinate category had a more negative influence on attitudes towards the out-group when relative in-group prototypicality is high rather than low.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- The Ties That Bind (2015, background): “Similarly, Waldzus and Mummendey (2004) find that a German national identity is associated with exclusively West German characteristics.”
- Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model (2007, background): “The following two experiments provided evidence against this alternative explanation (Waldzus & Mummendey, 2004 ).”