ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2010 Jul;36(7):960-74. doi: 10.1177/0146167210367488. Epub 2010 May 17.
The ingroup projection model posits that group members project ingroup features onto a superordinate category. The present research aimed at isolating the cognitive underpinnings of this process. If ingroup projection is a spontaneous cognitive process, a superordinate category prime should facilitate the processing of the ingroup prototype rather than the outgroup prototype. Three studies support this hypothesis by comparing subliminal semantic priming in two different populations, an intra- versus intergroup situation, and with an ingroup prototype manipulated by changing the intergroup context. Results indicated that the superordinate category prime facilitated the processing of ingroup rather than outgroup traits (Experiment 1) and that these traits depended on the particular content of the ingroup prototype made salient by different contexts (Experiments 2 and 3). The findings indicate that the cognitive representation of the superordinate category is based on ingroup traits and that this representation is context dependent.
内群体投射模型假设，群体成员会将内群体特征投射到一个上位类别上。本研究旨在探究这一过程的认知基础。如果内群体投射是一种自发的认知过程，那么上位类别提示应该会促进对内群体原型的加工，而不是对外群体原型的加工。三项研究通过在两个不同群体、内群体与外群体情境以及通过改变群体间背景来操纵内群体原型，支持了这一假设。结果表明，上位类别提示促进了对内群体而不是外群体特征的加工（实验 1），并且这些特征取决于不同情境下突显的内群体原型的特定内容（实验 2 和实验 3）。研究结果表明，上位类别的认知表征是基于内群体特征的，并且这种表征是依赖于情境的。
