Toward an understanding of trait competition, cooperation and explicit intergroup prejudice.

Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0376372 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1940-1183 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00224545 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Soc Psychol Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2010- : New York : Routledge
Original Publication: Provincetown, Mass. : Journal Press

Competitive Behavior* ; Cooperative Behavior* ; Prejudice*; White People/*psychology; Black or African American ; Attitude ; Female ; Heterosexuality/psychology ; Humans ; Male

We sought to measure whether, and to what extent, correlations existed between trait-level cooperation and competition and different forms of intergroup prejudice. We recruited two samples of heterosexual European-American participants ( n = 113 and n = 223) from a U.S. national panel survey service. Participants completed measures of racial, gender, and sexual orientation prejudice as questionnaires. In both samples, we found that trait competition tended to positively correlate with explicit measures, such that increasing trait competition was associated with higher degrees of prejudice. Interestingly, we found that different "families" of prejudice had different correlational profiles with trait competition, such that those with racial and gender prejudice had larger magnitudes than sexual orientation prejudice. Separately, trait cooperation only correlated reliably with prejudicial attitudes toward African Americans, such that increasing trait cooperation was associated with lower levels of prejudice.

Keywords: Explicit prejudice; competition; cooperation; trait

Date Created: 20200617 Date Completed: 20211111 Latest Revision: 20221207

20231215

10.1080/00224545.2020.1779640

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