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What Do Drawings Reveal About People's Attitudes Toward Countries and Their Citizens ?

Published inSocial psychology, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 231-240
Publication date2011
Abstract

Participants (N = 567) from six countries (Belgium, Ivory Coast, Italy, Kosovo, Portugal, and Switzerland) drew borders oftheir own and of neighbor countries on boundary-free maps. It was predicted and found that the tendency to overestimate versus underestimate the sizes of the countries, compared to the original maps, reflects the perceiver's attitudes toward the target country, status asymmetries, and the quality of relations between the ingroup and outgroup countries. The findings are discussed with regard to the use of drawings in revealing people's attitudes toward outgroups.

Keywords
  • Drawings
  • Social attitudes
  • Group status
  • Intergroup relations
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LORENZI-CIOLDI, Fabio et al. What Do Drawings Reveal About People’s Attitudes Toward Countries and Their Citizens ? In: Social psychology, 2011, vol. 42, n° 3, p. 231–240. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000067
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