Factors Contributing to the Choice of Ethnic Categorization in Situations of Informational Influence

Khukhlaev O.E.
PhD in Psychology, Professor, Head of the Chair of Ethnopsychology and Psychological Problems in Multicultural Education, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-9534
e-mail: huhlaevoe@mgppu.ru

Tarasov K.O.
Post-graduate Student of the Department of Ethnopsychology and Psychological Problems of Multicultural Education of the Faculty of Social Psychology, Moscow City Psychological Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: dr-bmx@mail.ru

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The paper focuses on the specifics of mutual impacts of informational influence and personality features of an individual in situations of ethnic categorization. As it was revealed, the subjects that were presented with materials raising the accessibility of ethnic category used ethnicity more often in the process of ethnic categorization. Of all the social psychological parameters employed in the study, only nationalistic attitudes seem to have visible impact on social categorization based on ethnicity. Also, the study found no mutual impacts of information and attitudes towards ethnic categorization. The outcomes suggest that ethnic categorization may well be not just the function of intragroup processes, but also the result of circumstances of the context.

Keywords: social categorization, ethnic identity, ethnonational attitudes, informational priming

Column: Experimental Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2015060305

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Khukhlaev O.E., Tarasov K.O. Factors Contributing to the Choice of Ethnic Categorization in Situations of Informational Influence . Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2015. Vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 64–80. doi:10.17759/sps.2015060305. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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