Agreement and Accuracy of National Stereotypes in Five Central European Countries

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Agreement and Accuracy of National Stereotypes in Five Central European Countries

Original language description

In the chapter, we provide an overview of the current research on the accuracy of national stereotypes and introduce results of a research project on national stereotypes in five Central European countries. National stereotypes were operationalized as personality traits of typical country representatives. In Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and Slovakia, we measured stereotypes from ingroup as well as outgroup perspectives. Each typical country representative was rated by people from the same country as well as from the other countries in the central European region. The main goal of our research was to compare both ingroup- and outgroup stereotypes with personality traits of real people living in the given countries to estimate if national stereotypes are accurate. Our results showed an agreement between Czech university students and Czech adults with different education level in their perception of Czech national stereotype and national stereotypes of other four countries, indicating stability of national ingroup stereotypes in time. The comparison of national ingroup stereotypes from the five central European countries resulted in a significant agreement between Czechs and Poles, Austrians and Germans, Czechs and Austrians, as well as Austrians and Poles. We found a good agreement among raters from different countries in their view on typical representatives of other countries – meaning that national stereotypes of a certain country rated from an outgroup perspective converge. National ingroup stereotype agreed with national outgroup stereotypes only in case of a typical German. The main finding of our research is that neither national ingroup stereotypes nor outgroup stereotypes correspond to personality traits of real people living in the given countries, indicating that national stereotypes are not accurate.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AN - Psychology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-25656S" target="_blank" >GA13-25656S: Determinants of Intergroup Relations: An Integrated Model of Intergroup Attitudes, Contact, Personality-, and Socially-Anchored Factors</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Stereotypes and Stereotyping: Misperceptions, Perspectives and Role of Social Media

ISBN

978-1-63484-510-6

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

117-132

Number of pages of the book

168

Publisher name

Nova Science Publishers

Place of publication

New York

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