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Not so typical after all? Reducing self-typicality improves majority members' responses to diversity and minorities.

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Title: Not so typical after all? Reducing self-typicality improves majority members' responses to diversity and minorities.
Authors: Ehrke, Franziska (AUTHOR), Steffens, Melanie C. (AUTHOR)
Source: Self & Identity. Jun2025, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p359-393. 35p.
Subjects: Outgroups (Social groups), Majorities, Attitude (Psychology), Concord, Minorities
Abstract: National diversity can threaten the prototypical positions of majorities, with prototypicality threat in turn impairing attitudes toward minorities. We suggest that majority members' reactions to diversity may be affected by their perceived self-typicality (i.e., how typical they regard themselves for the ingroup). We provide correlational evidence that higher perceived self-typicality distinctly predicts more prototypicality threat and negative outgroup attitudes (NS1 = 67), compared with other identification components. Moreover, perceived self-typicality can be reduced experimentally (NS2 = 203; NS3 = 127). Finally, reducing (versus inducing) self-typicality before facing national diversity (versus unity) moderated whether majority members reported more perceived diversity versus more prototypicality threat and whether intergroup attitudes were improved versus impaired (S3). We discuss implications for improving intergroup relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: National diversity can threaten the prototypical positions of majorities, with prototypicality threat in turn impairing attitudes toward minorities. We suggest that majority members' reactions to diversity may be affected by their perceived self-typicality (i.e., how typical they regard themselves for the ingroup). We provide correlational evidence that higher perceived self-typicality distinctly predicts more prototypicality threat and negative outgroup attitudes (NS1 = 67), compared with other identification components. Moreover, perceived self-typicality can be reduced experimentally (NS2 = 203; NS3 = 127). Finally, reducing (versus inducing) self-typicality before facing national diversity (versus unity) moderated whether majority members reported more perceived diversity versus more prototypicality threat and whether intergroup attitudes were improved versus impaired (S3). We discuss implications for improving intergroup relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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