Ambivalent stereotypes link to peace, conflict, and inequality across 38 nations

Federica Durante; Susan T. Fiske; Michele J. Gelfand; Franca Crippa; Chiara Suttora; Amelia Stillwell; Frank Asbrock; Zeynep Aycan; Hege H. Bye; Rickard Carlsson; Fredrik Björklund; Munqith Dagher; Armando Geller; Christian Albrekt Larsen; Abdel Hamid Abdel Latif; Tuuli Anna Mähönen; Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti; Ali Teymoori

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Ambivalent stereotypes link to peace, conflict, and inequality across 38 nations

Federica Durante, Susan T. Fiske^*, Michele J. Gelfand, Franca Crippa, Chiara Suttora, Amelia Stillwell, Frank Asbrock, Zeynep Aycan, Hege H. Bye, Rickard Carlsson, Fredrik Björklund, Munqith Dagher, Armando Geller, Christian Albrekt Larsen, Abdel Hamid Abdel Latif, Tuuli Anna Mähönen, Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Ali Teymoori

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A cross-national study, 49 samples in 38 nations (n = 4,344), investigates whether national peace and conflict reflect ambivalent warmth and competence stereotypes: High-conflict societies (Pakistan) may need clearcut, unambivalent group images distinguishing friends from foes. Highly peaceful countries (Denmark) also may need less ambivalence because most groups occupy the shared national identity, with only a few outcasts. Finally, nations with intermediate conflict (United States) may need ambivalence to justify more complex intergroup-system stability. Using the Global Peace Index to measure conflict, a curvilinear (quadratic) relationship between ambivalence and conflict highlights how both extremely peaceful and extremely conflictual countries display lower stereotype ambivalence, whereas countries intermediate on peace-conflict present higher ambivalence. These data also replicated a linear inequality-ambivalence relationship.

Original language	English
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	114
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	669-674
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0027-8424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611874114
Publication status	Published - 24 Jan 2017

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Ambivalence
Conflict
Inequality
Peace
Stereotypes

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Durante, F., Fiske, S. T., Gelfand, M. J., Crippa, F., Suttora, C., Stillwell, A., Asbrock, F., Aycan, Z., Bye, H. H., Carlsson, R., Björklund, F., Dagher, M., Geller, A., Larsen, C. A., Latif, A. H. A., Mähönen, T. A., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Teymoori, A. (2017). Ambivalent stereotypes link to peace, conflict, and inequality across 38 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(4), 669-674. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611874114

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