Direct and indirect dimensional compensation: Is there a difference between observers and group members?
(2022) Group Processes & Intergroup Relations — Vol. 25, n° 2, p. 335-353 (2022)
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Schmitz, Mathias 
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- Dimensional compensation takes place when perceivers judge one of two social targets higher on one of the two fundamental dimensions while judging the other target higher on the second dimension. Interestingly, the majority of studies on the dimensional compensation effect focused on direct measures, with almost no attempt to rely on more indirect measures. We tested whether dimensional compensation also takes place at a more indirect level (Brief-IAT). In Experiment 1, observers presented with unknown groups dimensionally compensated both directly and indirectly. Experiment 2 had participants assigned to one of two novel groups. Whereas low-competence group members dimensionally compensated on both direct and indirect measures, high-competence group members dimensionally compensated at the direct level but did not conceed any advantage to the low-competence group at the indirect level. As a set, our findings shed new light on direct and indirect dimensionally compensatory judgments as a function of perceivers’ vantage points as observers and group members. © The Author(s) 2020.
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Schmitz, M., & Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Direct and indirect dimensional compensation: Is there a difference between observers and group members? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25(2), 335-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220963176 (Original work published 2022)