title: Ingroup ambivalence and experienced discomfort: the moderating roles of affective versus cognitive attitudinal basis, group identification, as mediated by negative beliefs about the ingroup.
abstract: Prior research has found individuals' reactions to vary depending on whether such associations are activated by emotions (an affective basis) or by beliefs (a cognitive basis) about the object's properties. Accordingly, this conceptual distinction should be relevant also for the discomfortive responses to one's ambivalent attitudes regarding fellow group members (or the ingroup). Findings from two studies support the argument that ambivalence-associated discomfort a) is a general tendency when it regards affect-based ambivalence towards fellow group members, while b) only holds for the more identified group members when ambivalence concerns beliefs about the ingroup, and for this latter group members c) this tendency is driven by the strength of their negative beliefs about the ingroup or fellow group members.
authors.affiliation: University of Trento, Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, Corso Bettini, 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), Italy. sandro.costarelli@unitn.it
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Costarelli
authors.forename: Rasyid Bo
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Sanitioso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000339:Affect; D001290:Attitude; D003073:Cognitive Dissonance; D003469:Culture; D008192:Deception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012925:Social Conformity; D012928:Social Desirability; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D055815:Young Adult