A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping

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Autor(a) principal: Tanjitpiyanond, P.
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Jetten, J., Peters, K., Ashokkumar, A., Barry, O., Billet, M., Becker, M., Booth, R. W., Castro, D., Chinchilla, J., Costantini, G., Dejonckheere, E., Dimdins, G., Erbas, Y., Espinosa, A., Finchilescu, G., Gómez, Á, González, R., Goto, N., Vauclair, C.-M., Wai‐Lan Yeung, V.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28613
Resumo: There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth-based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived higher economic inequality were indeed more likely to consider wealth as a meaningful basis for categorization. Unexpectedly, however, higher levels of perceived inequality were associated with perceiving the wealthy as less competent and assertive and the poor as more competent and assertive. Unpacking this further, exploratory analyses showed that the observed tendency to stereotype the wealthy negatively only emerged in societies with lower social mobility and democracy and higher corruption. This points to the importance of understanding how socio-structural features that co-occur with economic inequality may shape perceptions of the wealthy and the poor.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
title A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
spellingShingle A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
Tanjitpiyanond, P.
Cross-culture
Economic inequality
Social class
Stereotyping
title_short A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
title_full A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
title_fullStr A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
title_full_unstemmed A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
title_sort A 32‐society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping
author Tanjitpiyanond, P.
author_facet Tanjitpiyanond, P.
Jetten, J.
Peters, K.
Ashokkumar, A.
Barry, O.
Billet, M.
Becker, M.
Booth, R. W.
Castro, D.
Chinchilla, J.
Costantini, G.
Dejonckheere, E.
Dimdins, G.
Erbas, Y.
Espinosa, A.
Finchilescu, G.
Gómez, Á
González, R.
Goto, N.
Vauclair, C.-M.
Wai‐Lan Yeung, V.
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Peters, K.
Ashokkumar, A.
Barry, O.
Billet, M.
Becker, M.
Booth, R. W.
Castro, D.
Chinchilla, J.
Costantini, G.
Dejonckheere, E.
Dimdins, G.
Erbas, Y.
Espinosa, A.
Finchilescu, G.
Gómez, Á
González, R.
Goto, N.
Vauclair, C.-M.
Wai‐Lan Yeung, V.
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Tanjitpiyanond, P.
Jetten, J.
Peters, K.
Ashokkumar, A.
Barry, O.
Billet, M.
Becker, M.
Booth, R. W.
Castro, D.
Chinchilla, J.
Costantini, G.
Dejonckheere, E.
Dimdins, G.
Erbas, Y.
Espinosa, A.
Finchilescu, G.
Gómez, Á
González, R.
Goto, N.
Vauclair, C.-M.
Wai‐Lan Yeung, V.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cross-culture
Economic inequality
Social class
Stereotyping
topic Cross-culture
Economic inequality
Social class
Stereotyping
description There is a growing body of work suggesting that social class stereotypes are amplified when people perceive higher levels of economic inequality—that is, the wealthy are perceived as more competent and assertive and the poor as more incompetent and unassertive. The present study tested this prediction in 32 societies and also examines the role of wealth-based categorization in explaining this relationship. We found that people who perceived higher economic inequality were indeed more likely to consider wealth as a meaningful basis for categorization. Unexpectedly, however, higher levels of perceived inequality were associated with perceiving the wealthy as less competent and assertive and the poor as more competent and assertive. Unpacking this further, exploratory analyses showed that the observed tendency to stereotype the wealthy negatively only emerged in societies with lower social mobility and democracy and higher corruption. This points to the importance of understanding how socio-structural features that co-occur with economic inequality may shape perceptions of the wealthy and the poor.
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