Title | Responses to endorsement of commonality by ingroup and outgroup members: the roles of group representation and threat. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Authors | Gómez, Angel, John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Saulo Fernández, and Alexandra Vázquez |
Journal | Personality & social psychology bulletin |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 4 |
Pagination | 419-31 |
Date Published | 2013 Apr |
ISSN | 1552-7433 |
Abstract | Two experiments integrated research on the roles of common identity and social norms in intergroup orientations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that learning that ingroup members categorized the ingroup (Spaniards) and outgroup (Eastern European immigrants) within a common identity (European) produced more positive intergroup orientations toward immigrants. By contrast, learning that outgroup members held the same position elicited less positive orientations compared with a condition in which the information came from a neutral source. The effects were mediated by one-group representations. Experiment 2 also found that endorsement of a common identity generated more positive intergroup orientations when it was expressed by ingroup than outgroup members and revealed how this effect may be sequentially mediated by personal one-group representations and symbolic threat. |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0044833 |
Alternate Journal | Pers Soc Psychol Bull |