This study describes the social representation of indigenous people and analyzes the existence of differential positioning according to subtle and blatant prejudice levels. Participants (N = 304 residents from Buenos Aires, aged 18-41) answered the word association technique and the subtle and blatant prejudice scale towards indigenous people. The analysis of the word association’s rank and frequency indicated an anachronistic representation of indigenous people that places them outside culture. One-way Correspondence Factorial Analysis showed that participants with low and medium levels of subtle prejudice considered indigenous people as Argentinean and attribute their current situation to the massacre they suffered in the past. Participants with high levels of subtle prejudice devalued them and did not consider them as Argentine.

El objetivo de este trabajo es describir la representación social de los indígenas e indagar la existencia de posicionamientos diferenciales según los niveles de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto. Participaron 304 hombres y mujeres residentes en Buenos Aires (18 a 41 años) a quienes se les administró la técnica de asociación de palabras y la escala de prejuicio sutil y manifiesto hacia los indígenas. El análisis del rango promedio y la frecuencia de las asociaciones de los participantes pusieron de manifiesto una representación anacrónica de los indígenas. Además, mediante un análisis factorial por correspondencia simple se puso de manifiesto que los participantes con niveles bajos y medios de prejuicio sutil, piensa a los indígenas como argentinos y vinculan su situación actual a la masacre que sufrieron en el pasado. Por su parte, los participantes con altos niveles de preju...

This study describes the social representation of indigenous people and analyzes the existence of differential positioning according to subtle and blatant prejudice levels. Participants (N = 304 residents from Buenos Aires, aged 18-41) answered the word association technique and the subtle and blatant prejudice scale towards indigenous people. The analysis of the word association’s rank and frequency indicated an anachronistic representation of indigenous people that places them outside culture. One-way Correspondence Factorial Analysis showed that participants with low and medium levels of subtle prejudice considered indigenous people as Argentinean and attribute their current situation to the massacre they suffered in the past. Participants with high levels of subtle prejudice devalued them and did not consider them as Argentine.

In the framework of social perception and attribution theories, fundamental bias of Just World Beliefs developed by Lerner (1965) states that people need to see world as a just place in order to cope with an ordered and controlled sociophysical environment. By holding this ideas people can involve in long term proposes as in daily life social regulated behavior. Pursuing the isolation of a “cognitive invariant”, Just World Beliefs (JWB) thesis can be seeing as dealing with a natural aspect of human being not conditioned by social, cultural or ideological factors. In the need of recovering social dimension of attribution processes, pre- sent study aimed to examine the relationship between Just Word Beliefs (Rubin & Peplau, 1973) and some social variables. A descriptive correlation study was carried out based on a convenience sample of 349 students from Buenos Aires city. A...

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In the framework of social perception and attribution theories, fundamental bias of Just World Beliefs developed by Lerner (1965) states that people need to see world as a just place in order to cope with an ordered and controlled sociophysical environment. By holding this ideas people can involve in long term proposes as in daily life social regulated behavior. Pursuing the isolation of a “cognitive invariant”, Just World Beliefs (JWB) thesis can be seeing as dealing with a natural aspect of human being not conditioned by social, cultural or ideological factors. In the need of recovering social dimension of attribution processes, pre- sent study aimed to examine the relationship between Just Word Beliefs (Rubin & Peplau, 1973) and some social variables. A descriptive correlation study was carried out based on a convenience sample of 349 students from Buenos Aires city. A...