Browsing by Author "Rodriguez-Bailon, Rosa"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap
    (2013) Durante, Federica; Fiske, Susan T.; Kervyn, Nicolas; Cuddy, Amy J. C.; Akande, Adebowale (Debo); Adetoun, Bolanle E.; Adewuyi, Modupe F.; Tserere, Magdeline M.; Al Ramiah, Ananthi; Mastor, Khairul Anwar; Barlow, Fiona Kate; Bonn, Gregory; Tafarodi, Romin W.; Bosak, Janine; Cairns, Ed; Doherty, Claire; Capozza, Dora; Chandran, Anjana; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Iatridis, Tilemachos; Contreras, Juan Manuel; Costa-Lopes, Rui; Gonzalez, Roberto; Lewis, Janet I.; Tushabe, Gerald; Leyens, Jacques-Philippe; Mayorga, Renee; Rouhana, Nadim N.; Smith Castro, Vanessa; Perez, Rolando; Rodriguez-Bailon, Rosa; Moya, Miguel; Morales Marente, Elena; Palacios Galvez, Marisol; Sibley, Chris G.; Asbrock, Frank; Storari, Chiara C.
    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.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Perceived economic inequality enlarges the perceived humanity gap between low- and high-socioeconomic status groups
    (2024) Sainz, Mario; Martinez, Rocio; Matamoros-Lima, Juan; Moya, Miguel; Rodriguez-Bailon, Rosa
    In this paper, we analyze the influence of the perceived level of economic inequality in daily life on people's recognition of the perceived humanity gap between low- and high-socioeconomic groups within society. To achieve this purpose, in Studies 1A-B, we analyzed the relationship between economic inequality and the humanity gap. In Studies 2A-B, we manipulated the level of inequality (low vs. high) to identify differences in the humanity gap. Results indicated that higher perceptions of economic inequality lead individuals to recognize a wider humanity gap between low- and high-socioeconomic groups in society. Implications are discussed.