"You're a Nobody When you're Unemployed": Exploring the Content of Unemployed People's Stereotype

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3a2mw_v3
• Publication Date: 2025-03-06T12:06:40Z
• Authors: Charly Marie; Pierre Bouchat; David Bourguignon
• Keywords: Stereotype (UML); Dehumanization; Stigma; Social distance; Assertiveness

Unemployed people bear a stigma that builds on the stereotype of "the unemployed" and is associated with many adverse outcomes. No study has used dimensions facets latest integrated framework to describe their compare it other groups. In Study 1 among university students (n = 241), we show unemployed are rated lower than employed horizontal vertical stereotypes, as well capacity, assertiveness, morality friendliness. We also lowest when compared high-high occupation (firefighters) low-low (railroad workers). 2, replicate these findings 193) blatantly dehumanized same targets. 3, vocational integration workers 123) rate both facets, but not morality. Overall, conclude have highly destructive lacking in every dimension facet, they overly despised.