¡Nos gusta que nos vean... como somos!implicaciones de la teoría de la autoverificación a nivel intergrupal
- Morales Domínguez, José Francisco
- Gómez Jiménez, Ángel
- Huici Casal, Carmen
ISSN: 0213-4748, 1579-3680
Year of publication: 2004
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Pages: 139-157
Type: Article
More publications in: International Journal of Social Psychology, Revista de Psicología Social
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
Self-verification theory assumes that people like others to see them the way they see themselves. Following this assumption, people will do all they can to achieve a psychological coherence and will evaluate positively those circumstances that allow them this coherence. The present research tries to extend this assumption to an inter-group level. Two studies were conducted manipulating intergroup contact (n=112 and n=69, respectively), and then a third study manipulating intergroup value similarity (n=61). As predicted, the three studies show that these strategies improve outgroup image. Furthermore, and this was our most relevant finding, the two strategies (intergroup contact and intergroup value similarity) increased the overlap between how ingroup members think that outgroup members see them (meta-stereotype) and how they see themselves.