Back to Search
Start Over
Ambivalent stereotypes link to peace, conflict, and inequality across 38 nations
- Source :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publication Year :
- 2017
-
Abstract
- A cross-national study, 49 samples in 38 nations (n = 4,344), investigates whether national peace and conflict reflect ambivalent warmth and competence stereotypes: High-conflict societies (Pakistan) may need clearcut, unambivalent group images distinguishing friends from foes. Highly peaceful countries (Denmark) also may need less ambivalence because most groups occupy the shared national identity, with only a few outcasts. Finally, nations with intermediate conflict (United States) may need ambivalence to justify more complex intergroup-system stability. Using the Global Peace Index to measure conflict, a curvilinear (quadratic) relationship between ambivalence and conflict highlights how both extremely peaceful and extremely conflictual countries display lower stereotype ambivalence, whereas countries intermediate on peace-conflict present higher ambivalence. These data also replicated a linear inequality-ambivalence relationship.<br />NICHD NIH HHS
Details
- Database :
- OAIster
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Notes :
- pdf, English
- Publication Type :
- Electronic Resource
- Accession number :
- edsoai.on1200729497
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource