“I'm not in the best educational establishment,so what?” Effects of membership in more or less prestigious educational establishments on intergroup perceptions |
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| Authors: | Verena Aebischer Dominique Oberlé |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK |
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| Abstract: | The present study tests the assumption that the stable vs. unstable character of the structural relationship between groups
influences the type of bias to which differentiation may lead, and affects the likelihood of identification with one's ingroup.
Study 1 was conducted in Canada with university students and Study 2 in two French highschools; they both measured the impact
of membership in a prestigious vs. a non-prestigious group on intergroup perceptions. In the Canadian sample, the structural
relationship between groups was unstable, in a way that status asymmetry due to prestige differences might in time be eased
out to the advantage of the less prestigious group. In the French study, the structural relationship was stable and not likely
to evolve. As predicted, data from both samples' prestigious groups demonstrate a clear ingroup bias. Students from the less
prestigious Canadian university situated in an ascending movement did not judge their competencies as lower than those of
the prestigious university students, and further expressed the wish to enrol their children in their own university rather
than the prestigious university. As expected, data collected from French high school students in the less prestigious study
programme demonstrate a clear outgroup bias. Contrary to the initial hypothesis, in Canada, the prestigious university students
identify less strongly with their ingroup than the less prestigious university students. This effect may be interpreted as
participants distancing themselves from their ingroup prototype and it was also observed in the students of the prestigious
study programme in the French high schools. |
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