Helping to improve the group stereotype

Nick Hopkins; Steve Reicher; Kate Harrison; Clare Cassidy; Rebecca Bull; Mark Levine

doi:10.1177/0146167207301023

Helping to improve the group stereotype

Nick Hopkins
, Steve Reicher
, Kate Harrison
, Clare Cassidy
, Rebecca Bull
, Mark Levine

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Abstract

Three studies consider a basis for intergroup helping. Specifically, they show that group members may help others to disconfirm a stereotype of their own group as mean. Study 1 shows that Scots believe they are seen as mean by the English, resent this stereotype, are motivated to refute it, and believe out-group helping is a particularly effective way of doing so. Study 2 shows that increasing the salience of the English stereotype of the Scottish as mean leads Scots to accentuate the extent to which Scots are depicted as generous. Study 3 shows that increasing the salience of the stereotype of the Scots as mean results in an increase in the help volunteered to out-group members. These results highlight how strategic concerns may result in out-group helping. In turn, they underscore the point that helping others may be a means to advance a group's interest.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	776-788
Number of pages	13
Journal	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Volume	33
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167207301023
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Metastereotypes
Prosocial behavior
Out-group helping

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