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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 7, 957-969 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206287254
© 2006 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Overlapping Mental Representations of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Unraveling Self-Stereotyping and Self-Anchoring

Sabine Otten

University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Kai Epstude

University of Würzburg, Germany

Smith and collaborators presented strong response time evidence for overlapping mental representations of the self and relevant ingroups, and they interpreted their findings as reflecting that people define themselves in terms of their ingroups. Besides on inferences from ingroup to self (self-stereotyping) however, self-ingroup overlap could also be based on inferences from the self to the ingroup (self-anchoring). The present research tackled this interpretational ambiguity and empirically distinguished self-anchoring versus self-stereotyping as processes possibly under-lying self-ingroup overlap. Results from three studies revealed stronger evidence for inferences from self to ingroup (selfanchoring) than the other way round (self-stereotyping).

Key Words: self-anchoring • self-stereotyping • social identity • mental representations • social projection • intergroup differentiation


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