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Book ReviewsBook ReviewsDario SpiniDario SpiniSearch for more papers by this authorPublished OnlineNovember 17, 2006https://doi.org/10.1024//1421-0185.60.1.50View Full Text ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInReddit SectionsMoreFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 60Issue 1March 2001ISSN: 1421-0185eISSN: 1662-0879 tabs.informationSwiss Journal of Psychology (2001), 60, pp. 50-52 https://doi.org/10.1024//1421-0185.60.1.50.© 2001Verlag Hans Huber

Self-Stereotyping in the Face of Threats to Group Status and Distinctiveness: The Role of Group Identification

In four studies, effects of self-perceived or public-perceived threats to group status or group distinctiveness on self-stereotyping (defined as similarity to prototypical in-group members) were investigated for people with high or low in-group identification. The main prediction was that high and low identifiers will respond differentially when their group's status or distinctiveness is threatened such that self-stereotyping is reduced for low identifiers but enhanced for high identifiers. Although the four studies investigated different comparison groups and different kinds of group threat, the results of all studies provided support for the prediction, and this was confirmed by a meta-analysis. This supports the authors' argument that the initial level of group identification determines whether group members are likely to set themselves apart from the rest of their group or to show group solidarity when their identity as group members is threatened.