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Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices. No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both stereotypes and prejudices. In the present study, participants ( n = 120) responded to an immigration scenario depicting a high- or low-status group, competitive or not competitive, and rated their likely stereotype (on warmth and competence) and elicited emotional prejudices (admiration, contempt, envy, and pity). Seven of eight specific predictions are fully confirmed, supporting the SCM's predicted causality for social structural effects on cultural stereotypes and emotional prejudices.

Source: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

DOI: 10.1177/1368430208101053

Authors: Peter A. Caprariello, Amy J. C. Cuddy, Susan T. Fiske

Institutions: University of Rochester, Harvard University, Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Award: Infrastructure for Population Research