Date Available
9-28-2018
Year of Publication
2018
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi
Abstract
Stereotypes surrounding race and socioeconomic status often have overlapping attributes. That is, we tend to stereotypically associate African Americans and poor individuals with being incompetent. Further, people automatically associate African Americans with the concept of poor. The current research examined people’s mental representations of a homeless person, a poor person, and a person with a home, to see if people’s mental representation of a homeless varied from that of a poor person. Results from Study 1 (N = 524), using a bi-racial base image indicate that people, on average, mentally represent the poor and homeless in a similar manner. The results from Study 2 (N = 496), using a White base image, replicate the findings from Study 1, and indicate that the findings from Study 1 were not the result of idiosyncratic features of the original base image. Future directions are discussed.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2018.059
Recommended Citation
McKee, Stephanie E., "MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOMELESS" (2018). Theses and Dissertations--Psychology. 132.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/psychology_etds/132
