When are intergroup attitudes based on perceived consensus information?

Figures & data

Table 1. Mean familiarity ratings, standard deviations, and correlations between participants' own attitudes and their perceptions of others' attitudes for each group, Study 1.

Group	Mean	SD	r
Unfamiliar
Pilots	2.42	0.93	.83**
Policemen	2.90	1.17	.62**
Construction workers	3.00	1.46	.41**
Ministers	3.04	1.50	.50**
Nurses	3.10	1.00	.46**
Mailmen	4.22	1.30	.61**
Senior citizens	4.53	0.96	.59**
Protestants	4.62	1.68	.57**
Republicans	5.07	1.34	.48**
Familiar
Asians	5.34	0.81	.54**
Catholics	5.51	1.03	.49**
Democrats	5.54	0.87	.30*
Jews	5.54	0.93	.59**
Blacks	5.72	0.59	.48**
Whites	5.96	0.20	.43**
Men	5.98	0.12	.56**
Women	5.99	0.12	.58**
College students	5.99	0.12	.55**
* = the correlation is significant at p<.05; ** = the correlation is significant at p<.001.

Figure 1. Mean favorability attitudes toward social groups as a function of group familiarity and consensus information, Study 2.

Figure 2. Mean trait ratings of social groups as a function of group familiarity and consensus information, Study 2.