Extending the Benefits of Recategorization: Evaluations, Self-Disclosure, and Helping
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The Common Ingroup Identity Model proposes that if members of different groups conceive of themselves more as a single group rather than as two separate groups, intergroup bias will be reduced through processes involving pro-ingroup favoritism. The present research extended work on this model by investigating the effects of recategorization on intergroup behavior, specifically helping and self-disclosure, as well as evaluations. Participants first worked as members of two three-person groups, and then the two groups interacted under conditions designed to enhance a two-group representation or recategorization with an inclusive one-group representation. As expected, the manipulation of the intergroup contact situation that created stronger impressions of one group reduced intergroup bias in evaluations, self-disclosure, and helping. Furthermore, ratings of the extent to which the six participants felt like one group mediated the reduction in bias, particularly for evaluative bias. Conditions facilitating the generalization of the benefits of recategorization to group members not present and to other groups are considered.
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“Perceptions of common ingroup membership also increase psychological bond and feelings of “oneness” that facilitate perspective taking82 and the arousal of empathy in response to their needs or problems.105–107”
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- Authors
- Dovidio, J. F., Gaertner, S. L., Validzic, A., Matoka, K., Johnson, B., & Frazier, S.
- Affiliations
- Colgate University (US)
- University of Delaware (US)
- Indiana University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1997-07
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 401-420
- ISSN
- 0022-1031 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2052670515
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- 470
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- 72
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- FWCI
- 17.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Keywords
- common ingroup identity model, intergroup bias, helping behavior, self-disclosure, intergroup evaluation, in-group favoritism, intergroup contact, group identity
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