Ethnic Out-Group Faces Are Biased in the Prejudiced Mind
Ethnic Out-Group Faces Are Biased in the Prejudiced Mind
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02186.x
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发表时间:
2008-10-01
影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
van Knippenberg, Ad
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作者:
Dotsch, Ron;Wigboldus, Daniel H. J.;van Knippenberg, Ad
Prejudice biases cognition, affect, and behavior toward ethnic out-groups (Fiske, 1998). We propose that prejudice also biases the way people conceptualize the facial appearance of out-group members. Popular belief holds that people’s personality traits are reflected in their facial features. Hence, people’s beliefs about the traits of out-groups may also be reflected in what they think faces typical for particular out-groups look like. Because prejudiced people have more negatively stereotyped beliefs about an out-group’s characteristics than less prejudiced people do (Fiske, 1998), we hypothesized that prejudiced people also have more negatively stereotyped mental representations of faces of people in the out-group. To test this hypothesis, we conducted two studies involving the category of Moroccans, a highly stigmatized immigrant group in The Netherlands.