Centre for Social Research and Intervention, Lisbon, Portugal.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2010 Mar;49(Pt 1):43-67. doi: 10.1348/014466608X400830. Epub 2009 Feb 14.
This paper investigates how targets respond to treatment that is explicitly or implicitly based on a contextually inappropriate social categorization. In three different experimental studies, a team member appeared to use participants' gender and not participants' personal preference to assign a proofreading task. Targets reported more negative self-evaluations in response to implicit categorical treatment in comparison to explicit categorical treatment. In contrast, explicit categorical treatment increased target's resistance to the treatment received. The pattern of results across the three studies shows that treatment based on a contextually inappropriate category is problematic even when the categorization is ambiguous or associated with attractive and positive outcomes.
本文研究了目标对象如何应对基于上下文不恰当的社会分类的明确或隐含的治疗。在三项不同的实验研究中，一名团队成员似乎根据参与者的性别而非个人偏好来分配校对任务。与明确的分类处理相比，目标对象在受到隐含的分类处理时报告了更多的负面自我评价。相比之下，明确的分类处理增加了目标对象对所接受治疗的抵制。这三项研究的结果表明，即使分类是模糊的或与有吸引力和积极的结果相关，基于上下文不恰当的类别的治疗也是有问题的。
