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Creating Social Reality: Informational Social Influence and the Content of Stereotypic Beliefs
dc.contributor.authorWittenbrink, Bernden_US
dc.contributor.authorHenly, Juliaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T13:37:01Z
dc.date.available2010-04-14T13:37:01Z
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.identifier.citationWittenbrink, Bernd; Henly, Julia (1996). "Creating Social Reality: Informational Social Influence and the Content of Stereotypic Beliefs." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22(6): 598-610. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68405>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0146-1672en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/68405
dc.description.abstractThree experiments tested the hypothesis that comparison information about other people's stereotypic beliefs is used to validate personal beliefs about a target group. A simple manipulation of questionnaire items and their response scales, presented as part of a political opinion survey, served as social comparison information regarding beliefs about African Americans. The comparison information influenced participants' subsequently measured beliefs about group as well as their evaluation of a Black target. When provided with negative comparison information, participants reported more negative racial beliefs and a more negative evaluation of the Black target than when provided with positive feedback. Moreover; this effect depended on participants' initial stereotypic beliefs. Only participants with initially negative beliefs about the target group were influenced by the comparison information; participants with relatively positive beliefs were not.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleCreating Social Reality: Informational Social Influence and the Content of Stereotypic Beliefsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan, [email protected]en_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of California, Los Angelesen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0146167296226005en_US
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