title: Responses to endorsement of commonality by ingroup and outgroup members: the roles of group representation and threat.
abstract: Two experiments integrated research on the roles of common identity and social norms in intergroup orientations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that learning that ingroup members categorized the ingroup (Spaniards) and outgroup (Eastern European immigrants) within a common identity (European) produced more positive intergroup orientations toward immigrants. By contrast, learning that outgroup members held the same position elicited less positive orientations compared with a condition in which the information came from a neutral source. The effects were mediated by one-group representations. Experiment 2 also found that endorsement of a common identity generated more positive intergroup orientations when it was expressed by ingroup than outgroup members and revealed how this effect may be sequentially mediated by personal one-group representations and symbolic threat.
authors: Dept. Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain. agomez@psi.uned.es
authors: Ángel
authors: Á
authors: Gómez
authors: John F
authors: JF
authors: Dovidio
authors: Samuel L
authors: SL
authors: Gaertner
authors: Saulo
authors: S
authors: Fernández
authors: Alexandra
authors: A
authors: Vázquez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012929:Psychological Distance; D011593:Psychology, Social; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D063508:Social Discrimination / Q000523:psychology; D012933:Social Identification; D012944:Social Support; D013030:Spain; D013240:Stereotyping; D055815:Young Adult