Stegehuis, Sem (2022) The Effect of Education-based Status Threat on Outgroup Attitudes Towards Lower Educated People. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Jackman (1994) demonstrated that in order to maintain the dominant position, the social group with the higher status will express warm and tolerant feelings toward the groups with the lower social status. This is called paternalism. The present study investigated if paternalism and corresponding outgroup attitudes are also applicable to education. In addition to this, we examined if negative attitudes towards the lower educated were moderated by social identification. The participants (N = 194) were mostly higher educated students and were randomly assigned to a control condition or one of the two manipulation conditions, which were intended to threaten the (education-based) status of the participant. After the manipulation (or control) they answered questions about how warm and tolerant they felt towards lower educated people. We hypothesized that threatening the status of the participant would elicit an increase in (paternalistic) warm feelings toward the lower educated. Furthermore, we expected that the effect of the manipulation will depend on the level of social identification. This study provided support for the assumption that a threat to the status of higher educated, can cause for warmer and more tolerant feelings towards their subordinates. The extent of identification with the higher educated had an effect on feelings toward lower educated, but it is not dependent on which group you are in. Future research could have more variation of age in the data, and should be done in a controlled environment.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Noord, J.J.L. van |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2022 15:19 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2022 15:19 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/277 |
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