Exploring how psychological constructs and their outcomes vary across geographic regions is a rapidly expanding area of research, yet fundamental questions remain. Can constructs designed to describe individual variation in attitudes be interpreted in the same way when aggregated to regional levels? To what extent are they related or distinct? We tested the relationship between individual and regional attitudes across four studies in the domain of intergroup attitudes. Participants reported explicit prejudices and stereotypes toward 14 different social groups, and incorporating data from Project Implicit, we compared the characteristics of regional and individual operationalizations of prejudice. Further, we tested whether attitudes related to one another in the same way across levels using representational similarity analysis. Drawing from construct validity theory, we find evidence that regional prejudice is an emergent property of individual attitudes, to which it is related but distinct. These findings contextualize stereotype and prejudice constructs in regional analyses in psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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区域和个人层面的偏见和刻板印象：相关但不同。


探索心理结构及其结果如何因地理区域而异是一个迅速扩展的研究领域，但基本问题仍然存在。当汇总到区域层面时，是否可以以相同的方式解释旨在描述个体态度差异的结构？它们在多大程度上相关或不同？我们在群体间态度领域的四项研究中测试了个体和区域态度之间的关系。参与者报告了对 14 个不同社会群体的明确偏见和刻板印象，并结合来自 Project Implicit 的数据，我们比较了偏见的区域和个人操作化的特征。此外，我们使用表征相似性分析测试了跨级别的态度是否以相同的方式相互关联。从建构有效性理论中，我们发现证据表明，区域偏见是个人态度的新兴属性，它与个人态度相关但又不同。这些发现将心理学区域分析中的刻板印象和偏见结构置于背景中。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 （c） 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。