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@article{ Reinhard2008,
 title = {Failure as an asset for high-status persons - relative group performance and attributed occupational success},
 author = {Reinhard, Marc-André and Stahlberg, Dagmar and Messner, Matthias},
 journal = {Journal of Experimental Social Psychology},
 number = {3},
 pages = {501-518},
 volume = {44},
 year = {2008},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2007.07.006},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-243382},
 abstract = {According to research on social identity theory and on prescriptive norms and stereotypes people are viewed as prototypical of a group to the extent that they possess ingroup characteristics but not outgroup characteristics. Following this assumption, even failure might have positive effects for high-status persons when they underperform in low-status domains. In this case, individual failure may be viewed as indicative of strong prototypicality for the high-status group and therefore lead to the attribution of future occupational success. Five experiments, using different high- and low-status groups, confirmed the hypothesis that people will attribute high occupational success to high-status persons who allegedly scored poorly on an achievement test in which a low-status group in general excelled relative to a high-status group. This effect was shown to be mediated by the attribution of prototypicality for the high-status group.},
}