An Exploration of Positive Stereotypes
Legitimating the System and Naïve Challenges to It
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2292153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L R Davis-Delano (0000-0002-5840-2809, Springfield College, corresponding author), Elizabeth M Morgan (Springfield College), Elizabeth Morgan (0000-0002-2349-7879, Springfield College), David M Merolla (0000-0001-9373-6727, Wayne State University), Drexler James (0000-0001-7324-168X, University of Minnesota), Tuyet Mai Ha Hoang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-599 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soin.12569 |
| OpenAlex | W4386714610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 61 |
Scholars have documented harm associated with positive stereotypes about groups that experience inequality. We surveyed five samples from the United States to explore antecedents to dominant group endorsement of positive stereotypes about women, gay men, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Native Americans. We found more liberal participants, and those with more close contact with members of these groups, were more internally motivated to respond without prejudice, which was then associated with greater endorsement of positive stereotypes about women, gay men, Black Americans, and Native Americans. In contrast, more conservative participants were more likely to believe in system legitimacy, which was then associated with greater endorsement of positive stereotypes about women and Asian Americans. We theorize that positive stereotypes are used by dominant group members in divergent ways, sometimes to legitimate inequality and other times with concern about inequality. The latter likely involves naivety regarding the harmful nature of positive stereotypes
Harm · Inequality · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Racism · Sociology · System Justification · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
The psychology of legitimacy
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Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful
Dirty Data
Victim Derogation and Victim Enhancement as Alternate Routes to System Justification
Methods for integrating moderation and mediation
The white man's Indian
The Relative Trustworthiness of Inferential Tests of the Indirect Effect in Statistical Mediation Analysis
Ideology
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Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies
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Studying is lame when he got game
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Best practice recommendations for data screening
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Left–right ideological differences in system justification following exposure to complementary versus noncomplementary stereotype exemplars
Intergroup contact and social change
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A Decade of System Justification Theory
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The Struggle for the Nature of “Prejudice
Exposure to Benevolent Sexism and Complementary Gender Stereotypes
Beyond prejudice as simple antipathy
Yet another dark side of chivalry
A model of (often mixed) stereotype content
Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice
Intergroup Contact Theory
A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change
The Construction and Validation of the Homopositivity Scale
Positive Associations Among Interpersonal Contact, Motivation, and Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Gay Men
Toward a Multidimensional Understanding of Heterosexism
Canada at a Crossroads
Stability and transformation in gender, work, and family
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |