Ethnic and National Stereotypes by Katz, Braly

By Katz, Braly

3 reports assessed adjustments within the content material, consensus, and favorableness of 10 ethnic and nationwide stereotypes via replicating and lengthening the Princeton trilogy. effects indicated that in the course of the prior 60 years, just about all of the ethnic and nationwide stereotypes that have been tested had replaced in content material, and greater than part had replaced in consensus. such a lot alterations in consenstis mirrored raises instead of decreases, suggesting that smooth contributors of stereotyped teams may possibly confront stereotypes extra usually than did preinous contributors of stereotyped teams. besides the fact that, the harmful results that consensual stereotypes may have on participants of those teams should be tempered through the discovering that the majority of the stereotypes grew to become extra favorable. those effects are mentioned by way of altering social roles, intergroup touch, and stereotype accuracy.

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By Katz, Braly

3 reports assessed adjustments within the content material, consensus, and favorableness of 10 ethnic and nationwide stereotypes via replicating and lengthening the Princeton trilogy. effects indicated that in the course of the prior 60 years, just about all of the ethnic and nationwide stereotypes that have been tested had replaced in content material, and greater than part had replaced in consensus. such a lot alterations in consenstis mirrored raises instead of decreases, suggesting that smooth contributors of stereotyped teams may possibly confront stereotypes extra usually than did preinous contributors of stereotyped teams. besides the fact that, the harmful results that consensual stereotypes may have on participants of those teams should be tempered through the discovering that the majority of the stereotypes grew to become extra favorable. those effects are mentioned by way of altering social roles, intergroup touch, and stereotype accuracy.

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His ap58 These formulations foreshadow Jung’s later differentiation between “superior” and “inferior” functions (cf. Jung, 1921; Definitions: Inferior Function). 59 MS: ein Vorstellen. 1 J (4 June 1915) • 47 proach to thinking is therefore extraordinarily concretistic, and it is immediately noticeable that it cannot turn into an abstraction. ” I am leaving out here something we will have to discuss later. With best regards, your Jung 60 MS: eine Empfindung. 2 S [24 June 1915] Dear Friend, As you have guessed, dealing further with the question of the psychological types has not given me any real headaches.

58 Naturally man, ever mindful of his role as Homo sapiens, tries to tame and control the irrational with the rational. As a consequence, the thinking person wants to force his feeling to serve his thinking, and the feeling person his thinking to serve his feeling. When I see this done by other people, it strikes me as completely absurd, because the other person does the very thing that most runs counter to my ideal. I call it childish and twisted. It is nearly impossible for me not to moralize about it.

255). 2 S (24 June 1915) • 49 63 of the content of carbonic acid and oxygen in the atmosphere is maintained by the antagonism of plant and animal life, I envisage that psychic development is made possible only by an antagonism between feeling-into and abstraction. “L’évolution . . ”65 Thus I, too, have been tempted time and again to see your standpoint as irrational, and mine as the only rational one. And it has taken me some time to realize that I am mistaken in having believed that everybody else would have to go to heaven in my own way.

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