Neves, PedroReichert, Julia Charlotte2017-09-282018-01-202017-01-20http://hdl.handle.net/10362/23691The present study investigated national meta-stereotypes discussed in terms of social categorization processes and its relationship to adjustment, meeting satisfaction and altruistic OCB behaviour within the European Institutions. A study among European officials was conducted to firstly investigate content patterns of meta-stereotypes of two diverging cultural clusters. This demonstrated that the Latin Europe cluster depicted paternalistic meta-stereotypes, while the Germanic cluster illustrated envious meta-stereotypes, which was derived from the content dimensions warmth and competence. The study argues that this can partly be ascribed to the recent Euro crisis. Secondly, the non-stereotypical dimension of each cluster predicted adjustment to the other group, respectively. Adjustment in turn, mediated the relationship between meta-stereotypes and altruistic OCB behaviour. Future studies on meta-stereotype should examine the factors leading to the adjustment to the outgroup.engMeta-stereotypesNational stereotypesSocial categorization processesAdjustmentMeeting satisfactionAltruismmaster thesis201715082