Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model

The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices. No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both stereotypes and prejudices. In the present study, participants ( n = 120) responded to an immigration scenario depicting a high- or low-status group, competitive or not competitive, and rated their likely...