Shared goals with outgroup members motivate accurate, counterstereotypic perception

Evidence

Usually, one is less motivated to be accurate about outgroup members and more motivated to share the ingroups’ understanding of them. Nevertheless, social understanding can also serve intergroup understanding. When people become interdependent with the outgroup, they focus more on the outgroup member’s unique, counterstereotypic attributes. This results from increased motivation to be accurate about someone whose goals one shares (the definition of an ingroup) (for a review, see Fiske, Lin, & Neuberg, 1999). This may explain why expanding the boundaries of us to include them alters people’s views of the outgroup (see chapters by Gaertner & Dovidio and Kenworthy et al., chs. 5 and 17 this volume); people depend on their (expanded) ingroup and need to understand them accurately. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 332

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the vault’s contact-theory and common ingroup identity claims; extends them with the accuracy-motivation mechanism. — connects to: Motivational reluctance, not cognitive limits, blocks cross-cultural perspective taking — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 79
• ADDENDUM: Supports the mechanism behind how contact changes outgroup views, relevant to the broader prejudice reassessment.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 332