Black sheep and expectancy violation: integrating two models of social judgment
✍ Scribed by Monica Biernat; Theresa K. Vescio; Laura S. Billings
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
A study of race-based ingroup and outgroup judgment demonstrates the links between two models of social judgmentÐthe `black sheep' eect (Marques, Yzerbyt & Leyens, 1988) and expectancy-violation theory (Jussim, Coleman & Lerch, 1987). White participants had a live interaction with a Black or White partner who contributed to a team success or failure at a game. Partner judgments, perceived expectancy violation, and mood changes indicated a pattern of ingroup polarization, though the race dierential was reliable only when targets performed poorly. Consistent with other research, this pattern was most striking among Whites who were highly identi®ed with their racial group. We suggest that racial identi®cation activates favorable within-group judgment standards which, when violated, produce mood decrements and negative evaluations.