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When ‘Us’ Matters Less: Social Identity Complexity and Reduced Ingroup Favoritism in Stereotyping

2026-07-31

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<p>How do people’s own identity structures shape the way they stereotype others? Across two preregistered experiments using a free-response stereotyping task and valence analysis, we tested whether social identity complexity (the extent to which individuals view their ingroups as differentiated rather than overlapping) was associated with intergroup bias in spontaneous stereotype valence. Consistent with classic i...

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Literature Corpus work: fa0d796a-b88a-58f2-a5b4-2952ce1ca972
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/7fj4n_v2

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