| 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 |
