Psicologia
ISSN 0874-2049
MIRANDA, Joana. Portuguese towards Spaniards, Americans and Cape-Verdians in Portugal: social distance, stereotypes and predisposition to attitudinal change. []. , 20, 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.
: National groups; social distance; stereotypes; attitudinal change.