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Number 2/2006
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On the unbiased and the favourably biased judgments towards
harmdoer's belonging to the negatively stereotyped category
Małgorzata Styśko
Faculty of Psychology, Warsaw University
Abstract |
Intuition and literature on attribution of blame let us expect that membership
of the perpetrator to the negatively stereotypized category should increase
tendency to blame him. However, some research argue that it is not the rule.
In some circumstances the person of that kind of category is judged similarly
or even more favorably to someone out of that category. In the article I discuss
three processes underlying those phenomena: the systematic processing, correction
(overcorrection) of the judgment and an alternative way of using stereotype-knowledge
by application of the belief that members of that category rarely occurs in
the social reality of the observer.
Key words: defensive attribution, attribution of responsibility, blaming,
stereotypes, probability of intergroup interaction, stereotype control, coping
with negative emotions
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