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

Federica Durante; Susan T Fiske; Michele Gelfand; Franca Crippa; Chiara Suttora; Amelia Stillwell; Frank Asbrock; Zeynep Aycan; Hege H Bye; Rickard Carlsson; Fredrik Björklund; Munqith Daghir; Armando Geller; Christian Albrekt Larsen; Hamid 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 Gelfand, Franca Crippa, Chiara Suttora, Amelia Stillwell, Frank Asbrock, Zeynep Aycan, Hege H Bye, Rickard Carlsson, Fredrik Björklund, Munqith Daghir, Armando Geller, Christian Albrekt Larsen, Hamid 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-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 (U.S.) 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
Pages (from-to)	669–674
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume	114
Issue number	4
Early online date	2017 Jan 9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611874114
Publication status	Published - 2017

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inequality
ambivalence

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Durante, F., Fiske, S. T., Gelfand, M., Crippa, F., Suttora, C., Stillwell, A., Asbrock, F., Aycan, Z., Bye, H. H., Carlsson, R., Björklund, F., Daghir, M., Geller, A., Larsen, C. A., Latif, H., 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, 114(4), 669–674. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611874114

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