A spontaneous stereotype content model

Taxonomy, properties, and prediction

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6206524
AutoresGandalf Nicolas (0000-0001-8215-1758), Xuechunzi Bai (0000-0002-2277-5451), Susan T Fiske (0000-0002-1693-3425)
Año2022
Volumen123
Número6
Páginas1243-1263
Fecha de publicación2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/pspa0000312
PMID35511560
OpenAlexW4229005495
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

1,470) show the utility of spontaneous stereotypes, compared to traditional, prompted, scale-based stereotypes. Using natural language processing text analyses, Study 1 shows the most common spontaneous stereotype dimensions for salient social groups. Our results confirm existing stereotype models' dimensions, while uncovering a significant prevalence of dimensions that these models do not cover, such as Health, Appearance, and Deviance. The SSCM also characterizes the valence, direction, and accessibility of reported dimensions (e.g., Ability stereotypes are mostly positive, but Morality stereotypes are mostly negative; Sociability stereotypes are provided later than Ability stereotypes in a sequence of open-ended responses). Studies 2 and 3 check the robustness of these findings by: using a larger sample of social groups, varying time pressure, and diversifying analytical strategies. Study 3 also establishes the value of spontaneous stereotypes: compared to scales alone, open-ended measures improve predictions of attitudes toward social groups. Improvement in attitude prediction results partially from a more comprehensive taxonomy as well as a construct we refer to as stereotype representativeness: the prevalence of a stereotype dimension in perceivers' spontaneous beliefs about a social group. Finally, Study 4 examines how the taxonomy provides additional insight into stereotypes' influence on decision-making in socially relevant scenarios. Overall, spontaneous content broadens our understanding of stereotyping and intergroup relations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Cognition · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Morality · PsycINFO · Social cognition · Stereotype (UML) · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology