ACCURACY OF SLOVAK NATIONAL STEREOTYPES: RESULT OF JUDGMENT OR INTUITION?

• Authors: Kourilova Sylvie , Hrebickova Martina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An international study comprising 3230 university students from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Poland examined the accuracy of Slovak national stereotypes. The accuracy of stereotypes was evaluated comparing ratings of typical Slovaks from the in group as well as out group perspective with ratings of real people living in Slovakia. We found that Slovak national stereotypes rated by Slovaks did not correspond with ratings of real Slovaks. The ratings of real Slovaks corresponded more with the ratings of Slovak national stereotypes by members of other Central European countries. Our findings indicate that national stereotypes can be based upon reflective judgment of real people living in the given nation. At the same time, ratings of group characteristics can be biased by other motivations, e.g. the tendency to evaluate one's own group more favourably than out groups.

Keywords

EN

CENTRAL EUROPE; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY; INTERGROUP BIAS; INTUITION; JUDGMENT; SLOVAK NATIONAL STEREOTYPES; STEREOTYPES

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 201-213
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kourilova Sylvie

author

Hrebickova Martina

• Martina Hrebickova, Ustav psychologie AV CR, Veveri 97, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA096926