PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.1: Mahzarin Banaji, Critical Role, Eugenius Warming
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Nations" income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: how societies mind the gap. Income inequality undermines societies: the more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Stereot(cid:455)pe co(cid:374)te(cid:374)t model (cid:894)scm(cid:895) argues that a(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:448)ale(cid:374)(cid:272)e per(cid:272)ei(cid:448)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) groups as either (cid:449)ar(cid:373) or (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete(cid:374)t, (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot (cid:271)oth (cid:373)a(cid:455) help (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374) so(cid:272)io-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37 cross-national samples i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigates ho(cid:449) groups" o(cid:448)erall (cid:449)ar(cid:373)th-competence, status-competence, and competition-warmth correlations vary across societies, and whether these variations associate with a measure of income inequality. More unequal societies do report more ambivalent stereotypes, while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images. What seems to matter the most in developed nations is the level of inequality in society, namely, the size of income disparities.
