Stereotypes During the Decline and Fall of Communism

Unique among the satellites of the Soviet Union, Hungary has data from a series of fourteen substantial surveys from the mid-1960s through to 1994. How do Hungarians think about themselves, their history, their society and other countries and their peoples? Hunyady provides an excellent summary of investigations examining these questions, analysing them against the background of the social psychology literature of stereotypes. 1 Stereotype systems research 2 The cognitive domain of nations: I National categories and attitudes 3 The cognitive domain of nations: II National stereotypes 4 The domain of societal categories: perception of occupational groups and class relations 5 The domain of historical periods: beliefs about 20th-century history 6 Stability of and changes in stereotypes: results