Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition.
Three experiments examined the role of intragroup social influence in intergroup competition. In the context of a mutual fate control situation, participants in Experiment 1 demonstrated more intergroup competition in the presence than in the absence of social support for shared self-interest. Experiment 2 revealed that, in the context of a Prisoner's Dilemma Game, this social support effect was stronger when noncorrespondence of outcomes between the interacting groups was low than when it was high. Results from Experiment 3 were consistent with the possibility that the effect of social support is attenuated when noncorrespondence of outcomes is high because under these circumstances intergroup competition is prescribed by a norm of group interest. The implications of these findings for understanding the antecedents of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity are discussed.
Wildschut
Tim
T
Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, England. timw@soton.ac.uk
Insko
Chester A
CA
Gaertner
Lowell
L
D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003163:Competitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D006127:Group Structure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017008:Negotiating / Q000523:psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012944:Social Support; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology