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Ethnicity and obesity: evidence of implicit work performance sterotypes in Sweden

Författare: Jens Agerström, Och Rickard Carlsson, Och Dan-Olof Rooth, Och

Publicerad i: International Journal of Manpower 2009, vol. 30, nr 1/2, s. 43-55

Sammanfattning av Working paper 2007:20

Using the Implicit Association Test, we investigate whether employers and students possess implicit and explicit negative attitudes and implicit perform-ance stereotypes toward Arab-Muslim men relative to native Swedish men. We also examine if employers and students have implicit and explicit performance stereotypes toward obese individuals relative to people of normal weight. The results demonstrate that employers and students both implicitly and explicitly associate Arab-Muslim men with less work performance. Also, they have more implicit negative attitudes toward this ethnic group. Obese individuals are both implicitly and explicitly associated with less work performance compared with normal-weight individuals.
Keywords: Implicit, attitudes, stereotypes, discrimination, ethnicity, obesity
JEL-codes: J53, J64, J71

Using the Implicit Association Test, we investigate whether employers and students possess implicit and explicit negative attitudes and implicit performance stereotypes toward Arab-Muslim men relative to native Swedish men. We also examine if employers and students have implicit and explicit performance stereotypes toward obese individuals relative to people of normal weight. The results demonstrate that employers and students both implicitly and explicitly associate Arab-Muslim men with less work performance. Also, they have more implicit negative attitudes toward this ethnic group. Obese individuals are both implicitly and explicitly associated with less work performance compared with normal-weight individuals.

Keywords: Implicit, attitudes, stereotypes, discrimination, ethnicity, obesity
JEL-codes: J53, J64, J71

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