Decoding subjective evaluations: How stereotypes provide shifting standards

Article Abstract:

Subjective labels are used to communicate preferences and impressions. The meaning of a subjective impression can be interpreted, only if the standard used by the evaluator is known. Stereotypes alter the standard employed in the judgment process. The shifting standards model has mainly been concerned with comparing judgements of stereotyped groups with those made on objective scales. An extension of the prior shifting standards work is provided, with examination of whether identical words are decoded according to stereotypic standards.

Observations, Social psychology

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Derogating black sheep: individual or group protection?

Article Abstract:

The black sheep effect is investigated and the relationship between individual and group protection strategies is examined by providing participants with two potential responses to a negative ingroup member-target devaluation and group disidentification. Substitutability suggests that the primary motive behind ingroup derogation was distance augmentation, which is an individual protection strategy.

Evaluation, Group identity, Social identity, Antisocial behavior, Similarity (Psychology), Antisocial behaviour

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Stereotypes and implicit social comparison: Shifts in comparison-group focus

Article Abstract:

Two studies were designed for testing the hypothesis that people imagine a broad, cross-group comparison for stereotypical statements but a narrow, within-group comparison for counter-stereotypical statements. It was analyzed whether these assumptions would facilitate the maintenance of stereotypes by confirming that race factors into participants' interpretations in a stereotypic manner.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Interpersonal relations, Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry), Stereotyped behaviour

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