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All humanity is my ingroup: A measure and studies of identification with all humanity.

McFarland, Sam, Webb, Matthew, Brown, Derek·2012·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037/a0028724
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To psychologists Adler (1927/1954) and Maslow (1954), fully mature individuals care deeply for all humanity, not just for their own ingroups. This paper reports a series of studies with a new measure of that caring, the Identification With All Humanity Scale (IWAH). These studies together show that identification with all humanity is more than an absence of ethnocentrism and its correlates and more than the presence of dispositional empathy, moral reasoning, moral identity, and the value of universalism. Across these studies, the IWAH predicted concern for global human rights and humanitarian needs (Studies 1 and 2), was temporally stable (Study 3), and correlated with how close others see one as being (Study 4). The IWAH strongly distinguished members of 2 known groups from a general adult sample (Study 5). It predicted valuing the lives of ingroup and outgroup members equally (Study 7), knowledge of global humanitarian concerns (Study 8) and choosing to learn about these concerns (Study 9), and a willingness to contribute to international humanitarian relief (Study 10). In regression analyses, it predicted these results beyond related constructs. Although psychologists have focused extensively upon negative qualities such as ethnocentrism and its roots, we suggest that the positive quality of identification with all humanity also merits extensive study.

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Authors
McFarland, S., Webb, M., & Brown, D.
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2012
Volume
103
Issue
5
Pages
830-853
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/a0028724
OpenAlex
W1966628564
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572
References
45
FWCI
54.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
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