While classmates have been identified as important socializing agents in relation to adolescents’ prejudice, there is limited understanding of how popularity status plays into classroom transmission of prejudicial attitudes. Drawing on theories of social influence, we used a three-wave panel of Swedish adolescents (N = 941, aged 13–15) to examine the role of sociometric and prestige popular classmates in the development of adolescents’ anti-immigrant attitudes. Multilevel repeated measurement models revealed positive relationships between popular and individual prejudice; between sociometric prejudice and the level and rate of change; and between prestige prejudice and wave-to-wave shifts in individual prejudice. Overall, we found sociometrically popular classmates to be more influential in relation to adolescents’ prejudice. Additionally, we found the effect of sociometric prejudice to be more pronounced if political issues were frequently discussed in the classroom.

虽然同学被认为是与青少年偏见相关的重要社交媒介，但人们对受欢迎程度如何影响偏见态度的课堂传播的理解有限。借鉴社会影响理论，我们使用了瑞典青少年的三波小组（N= 941，年龄在 13-15 岁之间），以检验社会计量学和声望受欢迎的同学在青少年反移民态度发展中的作用。多层次重复测量模型揭示了大众偏见和个人偏见之间的正相关关系；社会计量偏见与变化水平和速度之间的关系；以及声望偏见和个人偏见的波与波之间的变化。总体而言，我们发现社会计量学受欢迎的同学对青少年的偏见影响更大。此外，我们发现如果在课堂上经常讨论政治问题，社会计量偏见的影响会更加明显。