Framed and misfortuned: identity salience and the whiff of scandal

In this study a questionnaire was administered via e-mail to Dutch social p sychologists. We asked to what extent respondents felt that a widely publis hed plagiarism scandal involving a Dutch psychologist affected themselves a nd the image of their profession. As predicted, findings indicate that the impact of the scandal was dependent on the salient identity of both the per ceiver ('social psychologist' or 'psychologist') and the stimulus targe ('c linical psychologist' or 'psychologist'). Respondents were more affected by the plagiarism scandal when the self-category that was made salient matche d the category of the target of the scandal. Copyright (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.