In four studies, we test the hypothesis that people, asked to envisage interactions between an ingroup and an outgroup, tend to spatially represent the ingroup where writing starts (e.g., left in Italian) and as acting along script direction. Using soccer as a highly competitive intergroup setting, in Study 1 (N = 100) Italian soccer fans were found to envisage their team on the left side of a horizontal soccer field, hence playing rightward. Studies 2a and 2b (N = 219 Italian and N = 200 English speakers) replicate this finding, regardless of whether the own team was stronger or weaker than the rival team. Study 3 (N = 67 Italian and N = 67 Arabic speakers) illustrates the cultural underpinnings of the Spatial Intergroup Bias, showing a rightward ingroup bias for Italian speakers and a leftward ingroup bias for Arabic speakers. Findings are discussed in relation to how space is deployed to symbolically express ingroup favoritism (Spatial Ingroup Bias) versus shared stereotypes (Spatial Agency Bias).

在四项研究中，我们检验了这样一个假设，即被要求设想内群体和外群体之间的互动的人们倾向于在空间上代表写作开始的内群体（例如，用意大利语留下）并按照剧本方向行事。在研究 1 ( N = 100) 中，将足球作为一种高度竞争的群体间设置，发现意大利足球迷将他们的球队设想在水平足球场的左侧，因此向右踢。研究 2a 和 2b（N = 219 名意大利语和N = 200 名英语使用者）复制了这一发现，无论自己的球队比对手强还是弱。研究 3 ( N = 67 意大利语和N= 67 位讲阿拉伯语的人）说明了空间群际偏见的文化基础，显示了讲意大利语的人向右的内群偏见和讲阿拉伯语的人的向左的内群偏见。讨论了有关如何部署空间以象征性地表达内群体偏爱（空间内群体偏见）与共同刻板印象（空间机构偏见）的研究结果。