Coats Susan, Bayer Elisha-Rose, Worthen James B
Department of Psychology, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hamond, LA 70402, USA.
Am J Psychol. 2007 Summer;120(2):219-36.
The current research explores the effects of exemplars on the stereotype representation of one's ingroup. Previous research demonstrated that exposure to an ingroup exemplar affects the stereotype one holds of one's ingroup (Coats & Smith, 1999). The primary purpose of the present study was to examine whether this effect is moderated by relative ingroup size. Participants were placed into either a minority or majority group situation and exposed to 1 of 2 dissimilar exemplars of their ingroup. Later, they rated their ingroup. Ratings of the ingroup differed between exemplar conditions in unexpected ways, indicating that the exemplar affected participants' stereotype of their ingroup. Furthermore, exemplars had a stronger effect on participants in the minority group than those in the majority group. Finally, relative ingroup size and, to a marginal extent, exemplars were found to affect ratings of ingroup variability.
当前的研究探讨了榜样对内群体刻板印象表征的影响。先前的研究表明，接触内群体榜样会影响个体对自己所属内群体的刻板印象（科茨和史密斯，1999）。本研究的主要目的是检验这种效应是否会受到内群体相对规模的调节。参与者被置于少数群体或多数群体情境中，并接触到他们内群体的两种不同榜样之一。随后，他们对自己的内群体进行评分。在内群体评分方面，榜样条件之间以意想不到的方式存在差异，这表明榜样影响了参与者对自己内群体的刻板印象。此外，榜样对少数群体参与者的影响比对多数群体参与者的影响更大。最后，研究发现内群体相对规模以及在一定程度上榜样会影响对内群体变异性的评分。
