title: Big fish in small ponds: a social hierarchy analysis of intergroup bias.
abstract: High- and low-self-esteem group members received feedback about their individual performance as well as that of their own group and an out-group. They then evaluated both groups. Yoked-control observer individuals also provided group evaluations. In the in-group success/out-group failure condition, in-group enhancement tendencies were attenuated by individual failure feedback and augmented by individual success feedback. Low-self-esteem group members who received individual failure feedback showed favoritism toward the unsuccessful out-group over their own successful in-group. In the in-group failure/out-group success condition, in-group enhancement tendencies were attenuated by individual success feedback and augmented by individual failure feedback. Thus individuals' position in a social hierarchy mediates upward and downward social mobility strategies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 27412, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Seta
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Seta
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012649:Self Concept; D012933:Social Identification; D012937:Social Mobility