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Sherry L Lotz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Diluting Negative Country of Origin Stereotypes: A Social Stereotype Approach
Journal of Marketing Management, 2001Co-Authors: Sherry L LotzAbstract:The increase in global trade has prompted the need for managers to control the impact of negative country of origin (COO) effects on consumers' product evaluations. Yet, extant research in the area is limited and findings are mixed. This study empirically tests whether theories from the Social Stereotype change literature, known as subtyping and conversion theories, are effective in diluting consumers' negative country-oforigin Stereotypes. Additionally, it examines the specific conditions under which dilution may take place. Two experiments were conducted utilizing mall intercept methodologies in the United States. Evidence suggests that conversion theory is an effective COO Stereotype change agent. The results imply that international marketers may be able to reduce negative country-oforigin beliefs merely through exposing their consumers, under particular conditions, to disconfirming product information.
Michael Häfner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Contrast from Social Stereotypes in automatic behavior
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2003Co-Authors: Thomas W. Schubert, Michael HäfnerAbstract:Abstract The activation of Social Stereotypes can influence behavior outside of conscious awareness. It has been argued that while priming Social Stereotypes leads to behavioral assimilation, priming exemplars leads to behavioral contrast. Extending this theorizing, we argue that the activation of Social Stereotypes can also result in automatic behavioral contrast if a comparison of the self to the Stereotyped group is provoked. This hypothesis is tested with speed and intellectual performance as behavioral measures. In a first study, we show that categorizing perceived others as outgroup members leads to behavioral contrast from their Stereotype. The second study shows that subliminally priming the self during the activation of a Stereotype to which the self does not belong leads to automatic behavioral contrast from the Stereotype. These findings reverse previously found assimilation effects of Social Stereotype priming. Social comparison processes are discussed as a possible mediator of the results.
Thomas W. Schubert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Contrast from Social Stereotypes in automatic behavior
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2003Co-Authors: Thomas W. Schubert, Michael HäfnerAbstract:Abstract The activation of Social Stereotypes can influence behavior outside of conscious awareness. It has been argued that while priming Social Stereotypes leads to behavioral assimilation, priming exemplars leads to behavioral contrast. Extending this theorizing, we argue that the activation of Social Stereotypes can also result in automatic behavioral contrast if a comparison of the self to the Stereotyped group is provoked. This hypothesis is tested with speed and intellectual performance as behavioral measures. In a first study, we show that categorizing perceived others as outgroup members leads to behavioral contrast from their Stereotype. The second study shows that subliminally priming the self during the activation of a Stereotype to which the self does not belong leads to automatic behavioral contrast from the Stereotype. These findings reverse previously found assimilation effects of Social Stereotype priming. Social comparison processes are discussed as a possible mediator of the results.
Benoit Bardy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Moving attractive virtual agent improves interpersonal coordination stability
Human Movement Science, 2015Co-Authors: Zhong Zhao, Robin Salesse, Mathieu Gueugnon, Richard Schmidt, Ludovic Marin, Benoit BardyAbstract:Interpersonal motor coordination is influenced not only by biomechanical factors such as coordination pattern, oscillating frequency, and individual differences, but also by psychoSocial factor such as likability and Social competences. Based on the Social Stereotype of “what is beautiful is good”, the present study aimed at investigating whether people coordinate differently with physically attractive people compared to less attractive people. 34 participants were engaged in an interpersonal coordination task with different looking (virtual) agents while performing at the same time a reaction time task. Results showed that participants had more stable motor coordination with the moving attractive than with the less attractive agent, and that the difference in motor coordination could not be interpreted by a specific attention allocation strategy. Our findings provide the evidence that physical attractiveness genuinely affects how people interact with another person, and that the temporal-spatial coordinated movement varies with the partner’s psychoSocial characteristics. The study broadens the perspective of exploring the effect of additional psychoSocial factors on Social motor coordination.
Zhong Zhao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Moving attractive virtual agent improves interpersonal coordination stability
Human Movement Science, 2015Co-Authors: Zhong Zhao, Robin Salesse, Mathieu Gueugnon, Richard Schmidt, Ludovic Marin, Benoit BardyAbstract:Interpersonal motor coordination is influenced not only by biomechanical factors such as coordination pattern, oscillating frequency, and individual differences, but also by psychoSocial factor such as likability and Social competences. Based on the Social Stereotype of “what is beautiful is good”, the present study aimed at investigating whether people coordinate differently with physically attractive people compared to less attractive people. 34 participants were engaged in an interpersonal coordination task with different looking (virtual) agents while performing at the same time a reaction time task. Results showed that participants had more stable motor coordination with the moving attractive than with the less attractive agent, and that the difference in motor coordination could not be interpreted by a specific attention allocation strategy. Our findings provide the evidence that physical attractiveness genuinely affects how people interact with another person, and that the temporal-spatial coordinated movement varies with the partner’s psychoSocial characteristics. The study broadens the perspective of exploring the effect of additional psychoSocial factors on Social motor coordination.