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Perceived Variability of Personal Characteristics in In-Groups and Out-Groups

The Role of Knowledge and Evaluation

Princeton University

George C. Wood

Princeton University

George A. Quattrone

Princeton University

Members of four undergraduate clubs rated their own club as more heterogeneous on a series of personal characteristics than they rated the three other clubs. This tendency was unrelated to the number of in-group or out-group members known, or to the degree of preference for the in-group.

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