Does cultural diversity reflect differences in people living in distinct countries? The case of national stereotypes in Central Europe
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/00490-000" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/00490-000</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/00490-000" target="_blank" >10.1027/00490-000</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does cultural diversity reflect differences in people living in distinct countries? The case of national stereotypes in Central Europe
Original language description
The chapter introduces research on sources of cultural diversity. We investigated whether perceived diversity in Central Europe corresponds to actual differences between people from central European countries. Cultural diversity in our study was represented by beliefs about characteristics typical for citizens of one’s own country – national stereotypes. 2241 participants from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Slovakia rated national stereotypes of their own country. We used existing data from 17377 participants from the five countries who rated their own personality or personality of their significant others. While national stereotypes clearly differentiated between typical representatives of central European countries, the personality profiles of their inhabitants showed remarkable resemblance. Based on the results of our research, we suggest that perceived diversity is a cultural construct serving people’s need for distinctiveness rather than a true difference in real people’s characteristics, at least in the studied area.n
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
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>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Cultural and Ethnic Diversity. How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges
ISBN
978-0-88937-490-4
Number of pages of the result
6
Pages from-to
61-66
Number of pages of the book
222
Publisher name
Hogrefe
Place of publication
Göttingen
UT code for WoS chapter
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