Citation

Ruscher JB, O'Neal EC, Hammer ED. J. Soc. Psychol. 1997; 137(1): 5-9.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9121142

Abstract

How provocation by a single out-group member exacerbates perceptions of out-group dissimilarity was examined. Male American college students provoked by a Latvian college student not only perceived him as dissimilar from their own group of American college students but also perceived other Latvians (but not Senegalans, an irrelevant out-group) as dissimilar from American college students. Drawing negative inferences about the Latvian provocateur was correlated with perceiving other Latvians as dissimilar.

Language: en