Group conversation amplifies negative stigma-congruent impressions of outgroups
Evidence
Because people are interdependent within the ingroup, they struggle to ļ¬nd socially shared ways to make sense of outgroups, often to outgroupsā detriment. For example, after a negative revelation (e.g., discovering a previously unknown stigma), conversational dyadsā shared impressions of another person focus on stereotypes, especially negative, stigma-congruent information. Also, the more people are motivated toward consensus, the more they seek to construct shared stereotypic impressions (see Ruscher, 2001). ā , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature ofā¦, 329
Categorization
- XREF: Conversational sharing of negative stereotype-congruent details is a mechanism relevant to, and potentially working against, contact-theory optimism about intergroup talk.
- QUESTION: Does mere shared talk within an ingroup systematically build up negative outgroup impression, counteracting the contact effect?
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim ā , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature ofā¦, 329