Fein & Spencer

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Fein and Spencer
1997
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Sample
male undergraduates
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procedure
they were given false feedback on an intelligence test

randomly assigned to two conditions

they were asked to read a description of a young man's struggles to begin an acting career in NYC
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conditions
1. being told that they were in the top 10% of the university

2. that they had scored below average
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results
If the description implied = young man was gay the participants who were told that they had done poorly on the intelligence test tended to rate the actor in highly negative and stereotypical terms

If the actor was described as heterosexual --> there was
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conclusion
It appears that lowering of one's self-esteem makes one more likely to discriminate
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