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PsyEcology
Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology / Revista Bilingüee de Psicología Ambiental
Volume 3, 2012 - Issue 1
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El papel del espacio en la discriminación del otro. Los exogrupos me parecen menos humanos si están en espacios agradables

The role of context in the discrimination of others. Outgroups seem less human in pleasant physical contexts

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Pages 53-62 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

Los estudios sobre infrahumanizacion han verificado que las personas atribuyen características exclusivamente humanas a su propio grupo al tiempo que restringen esa posibilidad al exogrupo. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar si los contextos físicos agradables y desagradables modifican la pauta de infrahumanización del exogrupo. Para ello se diseñó una tarea de reconocimiento visual de palabras precedida por imágenes en las que se manipulaba el escenario físico sobre el que aparecían fotografías del endogrupo y del exogrupo. Los resultados muestran que hay una mayor asociación entre endogrupo y sentimientos que entre exogrupo y sentimientos cuando el fondo es un espacio agradable. Esta diferencia desaparece cuando se presentan en un espacio físico desagradable. La explicación de los resultados se hace atendiendo a la importancia del espacio físico en la identidad de los grupos.

Abstract

Infrahumanization studies have verified that people attribute uniquely human characteristics to their ingroup and restrict this possibility to outgroups. The aim of this study is to determine whether pleasant or unpleasant physical contexts change the norms of outgroup infrahumanization. Therefore, participants were presented a task involving the visual recognition of words preceded by images that were manipulated in terms of the physical context in which ingroup and outgroup pictures appeared. The results show that there is a greater association between ingroup and secondary emotions than between outgroup and secondary emotions when the background is a pleasant context. This difference disappears when they are presented in an unpleasant physical context. These results show the importance of physical contexts in group identity.

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