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TY - JOUR
T1 - Helping to improve the group stereotype: On the strategic dimension of pro-social behavior.
AU - Hopkins, Nick
AU - Reicher, Steve
AU - Harrison, Kate
AU - Cassidy, Clare
AU - Bull, Rebecca
AU - Levine, Mark
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33 (6), 2007, © Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. 2007 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin page: http://psp.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - In three studies we consider a basis for inter-group helping. Specifically we show that group members may help others in order to disconfirm a stereotype of their own group as mean. Study one shows that Scots believe they are seen as mean by the English, resent this stereotype, are motivated to refute it, and believe out-group helping is a particularly effective way of doing so. Study two shows that increasing the salience of the English stereotype of the Scottish as mean leads Scots to accentuate the extent to which Scots are depicted as generous. Study three shows that increasing the salience of the stereotype of the Scots as mean results in an increase in the help volunteered to out-group members. These results highlight how strategic concerns may result in out-group helping. In turn, they underscore the point that helping others may be a means to advance a group’s interest.
AB - In three studies we consider a basis for inter-group helping. Specifically we show that group members may help others in order to disconfirm a stereotype of their own group as mean. Study one shows that Scots believe they are seen as mean by the English, resent this stereotype, are motivated to refute it, and believe out-group helping is a particularly effective way of doing so. Study two shows that increasing the salience of the English stereotype of the Scottish as mean leads Scots to accentuate the extent to which Scots are depicted as generous. Study three shows that increasing the salience of the stereotype of the Scots as mean results in an increase in the help volunteered to out-group members. These results highlight how strategic concerns may result in out-group helping. In turn, they underscore the point that helping others may be a means to advance a group’s interest.
KW - metastereotypes • prosocial behavior • out-group helping
U2 - 10.1177/0146167207301023
DO - 10.1177/0146167207301023
M3 - Journal article
VL - 33
SP - 776
EP - 788
JO - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
JF - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
SN - 0146-1672
IS - 6
ER -