When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes

Instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs (i.e., beliefs that diverse groups outperform homogenous groups in terms of group functioning) have been shown to improve intergroup attitudes. However, such valuing of diversity due to its expected instrumentality holds the risk that outgroups may be deva...

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Autores principales: Kauff, Mathias, Schmid, Katharina, Christ, Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7263624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32479556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234179
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description Instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs (i.e., beliefs that diverse groups outperform homogenous groups in terms of group functioning) have been shown to improve intergroup attitudes. However, such valuing of diversity due to its expected instrumentality holds the risk that outgroups may be devalued in situations when diversity ends up being detrimental to group functioning. Across four experiments, we studied the interplay between instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs, actual instrumentality of ethnic diversity, and outgroup attitudes. Our results do not reveal a robust interaction effect between instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs and actual instrumentality of diverse groups. Some evidence, however, supports the assumption that instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs yielded a weaker positive or even a negative effect on ethnic outgroup attitudes when ethnic diversity was perceived as non-instrumental (i.e., when diversity was perceived as having a negative impact on group functioning). Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-72636242020-06-10 When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes Kauff, Mathias Schmid, Katharina Christ, Oliver PLoS One Research Article Instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs (i.e., beliefs that diverse groups outperform homogenous groups in terms of group functioning) have been shown to improve intergroup attitudes. However, such valuing of diversity due to its expected instrumentality holds the risk that outgroups may be devalued in situations when diversity ends up being detrimental to group functioning. Across four experiments, we studied the interplay between instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs, actual instrumentality of ethnic diversity, and outgroup attitudes. Our results do not reveal a robust interaction effect between instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs and actual instrumentality of diverse groups. Some evidence, however, supports the assumption that instrumentality-based pro-diversity beliefs yielded a weaker positive or even a negative effect on ethnic outgroup attitudes when ethnic diversity was perceived as non-instrumental (i.e., when diversity was perceived as having a negative impact on group functioning). Theoretical contributions, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed. Public Library of Science 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7263624/ /pubmed/32479556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234179 Text en © 2020 Kauff et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
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title_full When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
title_fullStr When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
title_full_unstemmed When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
title_short When good for business is not good enough: Effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
title_sort when good for business is not good enough: effects of pro-diversity beliefs and instrumentality of diversity on intergroup attitudes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7263624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32479556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234179
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