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Título: Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap.
Autor/a o Autores/as:
Federica Durante
Susan T. Fiske
Nicolas Kervyn
Amy Cuddy
Adebowale Akande
Bolanle Adetoun
Modupe F Adewuyi
Magdeline M Tserere
Ananthi Al Ramiah
Khairul Anwar Mastor
Fiona Kate Barlow
Gregory Bonn
Romin W Tafarodi
Janine Bosak
Ed Cairns
Claire Doherty
Dora Capozza
Anjana Chandran
Xenia Chryssochoou
Tilemachos Iatridis
Juan Manuel Contreras
Rui Costa Lopes
Roberto González
Janet I Lewis
Gerald Tushabe
Jacques Philippe Leyens
Renée Mayorga
Nadim N. Rouhana
Vanessa Smith Castro
Rolando Pérez Sánchez
Rosa Rodríguez Bailón
Miguel Moya
Elena Morales
Marisol Palacios Gálvez
Chris G. Sibley
Frank Asbrock
Chiara C Storari
Año: 2013

Resumen

Income inequality undermines societies: The more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, life expectancy. Given people's tendency to legitimate existing social arrangements, the stereotype content model (SCM) argues that ambivalence-perceiving many groups as either warm or competent, but not both-may help maintain socio-economic disparities. The association between stereotype ambivalence and income inequality in 37 cross-national samples from Europe, the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Africa investigates how groups' overall warmth-competence, status-competence, and competition-warmth correlations vary across societies, and whether these variations associate with income inequality (Gini index). More unequal societies report more ambivalent stereotypes, whereas 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.