Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

 

Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Schaller, M.
Right arrow Articles by O'Brien, M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Schaller, M.
Right arrow Articles by O'Brien, M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 18, No. 6, 776-785 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167292186014
© 1992 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

"Intuitive Analysis of Covariance" and Group Stereotype Formation

Mark Schaller

University of Texas at Arlington py_mks{at}lewis.umt.edu

Meredith O'Brien

University of Texas at Arlington

There exist actual correlations between group membership and behavior that are purely spurious, resulting from very different situational constraints on group members' behavior. Accurate group inferences require that people recognize and control for the differing situational constraints by using reasoning analogous to a statistical analysis of covariance. An initial study demonstrated that people often fail to engage in such reasoning and consequently form erroneous group impressions. A second experiment tested two hypotheses concerning the conditions that may facilitate more sophisticated covariation reasoning. Results indicated that (a) relaxed temporal constraints and (b) explicit attention to situational differences both facilitate 'intuitive analysis of covariance" and more accurate group inferences. Discussion focuses on implications for understanding the formation of group stereotypes and on factors that may inhibit stereotype formation.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
K. Fiedler, E. Walther, P. Freytag, and S. Nickel
Inductive Reasoning and Judgment Interference: Experiments on Simpson's Paradox
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, January 1, 2003; 29(1): 14 - 27.
[Abstract] [PDF]