Short Robert, Magaña Lisa
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-1104, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2002 Dec;142(6):701-12. doi: 10.1080/00224540209603930.
The authors examined political candidates' social stereotypes of Mexican immigrants in mainstream media accounts. From those popular themes, they formed semantic differential scales, which they administered to participants (N = 201) with 1 of 4 scenarios describing an illegal immigrant: of Mexican vs. English Canadian descent and with vs. without several parking tickets. Consistent with contemporary theories of prejudice (J. F. Dovidio & S. L. Gaertner, 1996), the participants indicated the greatest agreement with the pejorative themes when the immigrant described was of Mexican descent and had accumulated parking tickets. Psychologically, the parking tickets served as a nonethnic rationale for discriminating against that ethnic group. The authors discuss the social and public policy implications of Mexican immigration as a political phenomenon.
作者们在主流媒体报道中研究了政治候选人对墨西哥移民的社会刻板印象。基于这些流行主题，他们编制了语义差异量表，并将其施测于201名参与者，这些参与者被随机分配到4种情景描述中的1种，情景描述的是一名非法移民：墨西哥裔与英裔加拿大人后裔，有与没有几张停车罚单。与当代偏见理论（J. F. 多维迪奥和S. L. 加特纳，1996）一致，当所描述的移民是墨西哥裔且有停车罚单时，参与者对贬损性主题的认同度最高。从心理层面来看，停车罚单成为了歧视该族群的一个非种族理由。作者们讨论了墨西哥移民作为一种政治现象所具有的社会和公共政策意义。
