Journal article
The Importance of Status Legitimacy for Intergroup Attitudes Among Numerical Minorities
Journal of social issues, Vol.54(4), pp.759-775
1998
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01247.x
Abstract
This study investigated whether the legitimacy of the status structure influences the interactive effects of group status and numerical representation on intergroup attitudes. Participants were randomly assigned to conditions in a 2 (level of status; high, low) by 2 (legitimacy of status; legitimate, illegitimate) by 2 (numerical representation; majority, minority) between-subjects design. The predicted three-way interaction indicated that, when status was illegitimate, majority groups with high status showed more ingroup bias than majority groups with low status, but minority groups with high status did not show more ingroup bias than their counterparts with low status. By comparison, when status was legitimate, high-status groups were more biased than low-status groups, regardless of numerical representation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Importance of Status Legitimacy for Intergroup Attitudes Among Numerical Minorities
- Creators
- B. Ann Bettencourt - University of MissouriBruce D. Bartholow - University of Missouri
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of social issues, Vol.54(4), pp.759-775
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1998.tb01247.x
- ISSN
- 0022-4537
- eISSN
- 1540-4560
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 17
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1998
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984446062102771
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