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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 11, 1528-1537 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/014616702237580

The Relation between Allocentrism and Perceptions of Ingroups

Sandra Carpenter

The University of Alabama, Huntsville, carpens{at}email.uah.edu

Phanikiran Radhakrishnan

University of Toronto, Scarborough

The authors examine how allocentrism, or the importance placed on ingroups, relates to the perceived homogeneity and entitativity (groupness)of relational (interpersonal) and collective (categorical) ingroups. In two studies (Ns = 198, 90), allocentrism is shown to be positively related to perceptions of ingroup entitativity and homogeneity. This pattern was obtained, however, only for perceptions of collective ingroups. Ethnic differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White participants’ perceptions of ingroups were mediated by allocentrism (Study 1). Participants in Study 2 were members of a laboratory task group and their levels of allocentrism predicted their perceptions of the group’s homogeneity and entitativity regardless of the actual homogeneity of the group. The effects of allocentrism on perceptions of ingroups are discussed in terms of self-esteem, group identification, and responses to ingroup members’ deviations from norms.


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