Abstract

MIRANDA, Joana. Portuguese towards Spaniards, Americans and Cape-Verdians in Portugal: social distance, stereotypes and predisposition to attitudinal change. Psicologia [online]. 2006, vol.20, n.2, pp.167-186. ISSN 0874-2049.

The article presents results of a study concerning national identity and the representations of some exogroups in Portugal­ - social distance, stereotypes and predisposition to attitudinal change. The 446 Portuguese students who participated in the study - 241 from high school, 205 from college, 194 female and 252 male­ - were aged from fourteen to thirty­‑six. The instrument used was a questionnaire with seven versions, according to the comparison exogroups: Spaniards, Americans or Cape­‑Verdians. Considering the results, the concept of varied asymmetry was intro-duc­ed, and this concept pretends to express the idea that the same group may assume the dominant position in a certain comparison context and that of the dominated position in another different one.

Keywords : National groups; social distance; stereotypes; attitudinal change.

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