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Interpreting the perceptions of men and women from 17 nationalities in a Portug...
Reese,Jonathan; Santos,Ana Sofia; Palma,Tomás A.Abstract: Individuals have the propensity to attribute certain characteristics to nations or regions, and those living within, although the accuracy of this is under debate. In this pretest, Portuguese participants were asked to evaluate men and women from 17 nationalities based on dimensions which might be related to individualistic- or collectivistic-oriented nations - namely perceived masculinity, percentage...
Behavioral descriptions pretested for racial stereotypicality and valence: Data...
Quarenta,Joana; Palma,Tomás A.; Santos,Ana Sofia; Correll,JoshuaAbstract In social psychology research, there are several kinds of stereotypical materials that can be used - faces, videos, lists of words, attributes. However, when it comes to behavioral sentences, there is a lack of pre-tested racial stimuli available in the literature. To fill the gap, this paper provides two lists of 154 short behavioral sentences, with stereotypicality (white to black) and valence (negat...
Generation and testing of emergent traits in composite professional stereotypes
Benrós,Miguel F.; Vaz,André R.; Assunção,Hugo; Santos,Ana Sofia; Palma,Tomás A.; Garcia-Marques,LeonelIn daily interactions, we frequently meet people that belong to multiple categories, sometimes with conflicting stereotypical implications. Studies show that, when generating attributes for composite stereotypes, novel emergent attributes are created, derived from the constituent categories, but also from real world knowledge (e.g., Hastie, Schroeder, & Weber, 1990; Kunda, Miller, & Claire, 1990). In th...
The cultural stereotype of professional groups: Consensus, accessibility and ty...
Santos,Ana Sofia; Almeida,Filipa de; Palma,Tomás A.; Oliveira,Manuel; Garcia-Marques,LeonelThe purpose of the present work was to measure the stereotypic content of several professional groups in a Portuguese sample, by determining the culturally shared stereotypic attributes, their accessibility and typicality. Study 1 used a spontaneous attribute-generation-task to collect the stereotypic content of 28 professional groups. The frequency of generation was used to measure consensus on the attributes ...