Black sheep Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Limitations=== Even though there is wide support for the black sheep effect, the opposite pattern has been found, for example, that White participants judge unqualified Black targets more negatively than comparable White targets (e.g. Feldman, 1972;<ref name="Feldman (1972)">{{ cite journal | last = Feldman | first = J. M. | title = Stimulus characteristics and subject prejudice as determinants of stereotype attribution | journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | year = 1972 | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 333β340 | doi = 10.1037/h0032313 }}</ref> Linville & Jones, 1980).<ref name="Linville & Jones (1980)">{{ cite journal | last = Linville | first = P. W. |author2=Jones, E. E. | title = Polarized appraisals of out-group members | journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | year = 1980 | volume = 38 | issue = 5 | pages = 689β703 | doi = 10.1037/0022-3514.38.5.689 }}</ref> Consequently, there are several factors which influence the black sheep effect. For instance, the higher the [[Identification (psychology)|identification]] with the ingroup, and the higher the [[entitativity]] of the ingroup, the more the black sheep effect emerges.<ref name="Castano et al. (2002)">{{ cite journal | last = Castano | first = E. |author2=Paladino, M.|author3=Coull, A.|author4=Yzerbyt, V. Y. | s2cid = 2003883 | title = Protecting the ingroup stereotype: Ingroup identification and the management of deviant ingroup members | journal = British Journal of Social Psychology | year = 2002 | volume = 41 | issue = 3 | pages = 365β385 | doi = 10.1348/014466602760344269 | pmid = 12419008 }}</ref><ref name="Lewis & Sherman (2010)">{{ cite journal | last = Lewis | first = A. C. |author2=Sherman, S. J. | title = Perceived entitativity and the black-sheep effect: When will we denigrate negative ingroup members? | journal = The Journal of Social Psychology | year = 2010 | volume = 150 | issue = 2 | pages = 211β225 | doi = 10.1080/00224540903366388 | pmid = 20397595 | s2cid = 31260933 }}</ref> Even situational factors explaining the deviance have an influence whether the black sheep effect occurs.<ref name="De Cremer, & Vanbeselaere (1999)">{{ cite journal | last = De Cremer | first = D. |author2=Vanbeselaere, N. | title = I am deviant, because...: The impact of situational factors upon the black sheep effect. | journal = Psychologica Belgica | year = 1999 | volume = 39 | pages = 71β79 | doi = 10.5334/pb.942 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page