Intergroup threat and experienced affect: the distinct roles of causal attributions and in-group identification

Research shows that under manipulated conditions of intergroup threat, individuals experience greater negative affect to the extent that low in-group identifiers make an in-group-internal attribution rather than an out-group-internal attribution, and high ingroup identifiers make an out-group-internal attribution rather than an in-group-internal attribution for outcomes of intergroup comparison that threaten their social identity. The author predicted and found that under conditions of making an out-group-internal attribution, such an effect of in-group identification is mediated by the general proneness to perceiving in-group–out-group differences, or intergroup distinctiveness, at high, but not low, levels of in-group identification. Combining the findings of 2 different literatures, the author provides new insights into the distinct roles played by intergroup attributions as a predictor, in-group identification as a moderator, and intergroup distinctiveness as a mediator of the affective responses produced under conditions of social identity threat instantiated by individuals’ making out-group-internal attribution for the in-group unfavorable outcomes of intergroup comparison.



Titolo: Intergroup threat and experienced affect: the distinct roles of causal attributions and in-group identification
Autori: 
COSTARELLI, Sandro (Corresponding)
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Rivista: 
THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY  
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/11388/202704
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