Ingroup Glorification, common ingroup identity with, ambivalence towards, outgroup members, and positive intergroup action tendencies: a moderated-mediation model

: One study tested a moderated-mediation model exploring the moderating role of the glorification mode of ingroup identification on the causal path linking perceived common ingroup identity, cognitive outgroup ambivalence, and positive action tendencies towards outgroups. The current work argues that expressing outgroup ambivalence based on cognitive information is a strategy to justify one‟s otherwise suppressed prejudice, which may ultimately "cover" the discriminatory nature of outgroup-directed action tendencies, depending on individuals' ‟ingroup glorification‟ levels as well as their perceptions of common ingroup identity with, and their outgroup ambivalence towards, outgroup members. As expected, findings indicate that after expressing prejudice in a normative context inducing prejudice suppression, when participants self-reported positive outgroup-directed, action tendencies after the expression of ambivalent beliefs concerning the outgroup, for participants weakly glorifying their ingroup, the greater their willingness to social inclusiveness of outgroup members, the weaker their ambivalence towards such outgroup members, and the greater was their intention to act positively towards them.