VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2012 Jun;38(6):772-83. doi: 10.1177/0146167211436253. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
The authors extend previous research on the effects of metastereotype activation on outgroup helping by examining in more detail the role of group impression management motives and by studying direct helping (i.e., helping the outgroup believed to hold a negative view of the ingroup). Data from three experiments provided full support for the communicative nature of direct outgroup helping by demonstrating that outgroup helping in response to a negative metastereotype was predicted by participants' concern for the image of their ingroup, but not by their self-image concerns. Moreover, group image concerns predicted outgroup helping but not ingroup helping and predicted outgroup helping only when a negative metastereotype was activated, compared with a positive metastereotype, or a (negative or positive) autostereotype. The results also ruled out an alternative explanation in terms of denying the self-relevance of the metastereotype.
作者通过更详细地考察群体印象管理动机的作用，并研究直接帮助（即帮助被认为对群体持有负面看法的群体），扩展了先前关于元刻板印象激活对外群体帮助的影响的研究。三项实验的数据为直接对外群体帮助的交际性质提供了充分支持，表明参与者对群体形象的关注预测了对外群体帮助，而不是对自身形象的关注。此外，群体形象关注预测了对外群体的帮助，而不是对内群体的帮助，并且只有在激活了负面的元刻板印象（与积极的元刻板印象或积极或消极的自我刻板印象相比）时，群体形象关注才会预测对外群体的帮助。研究结果还排除了一种关于否认元刻板印象与自我相关性的替代解释。
