Don’t burn our flag: patriotism, perceived threat, and the impact of desecrating a national symbol on intergroup attitudes
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DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-01696-6
Abstract: Desecration of national symbols is a recurring societal phenomenon that can lead to highly defensive reactions from some citizens, especially on the part of those expressing a strong attachment to the nation. In this paper,… read more here.
Keywords: ingroup; perceived threat; flag; ingroup outgroup ... See more keywords
Minimal but meaningful: Probing the limits of randomly assigned social identities
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.04.013
Abstract: The current studies (total N = 151) experimentally manipulated meaningfulness in novel social groups and measured any resulting ingroup biases. Study 1 showed that even when groups were arbitrary and presumptively meaningless, 5- to 8-year-old children developed… read more here.
Keywords: probing limits; ingroup biases; minimal meaningful; meaningful probing ... See more keywords
Do demand characteristics contribute to minimal ingroup preferences?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105043
Abstract: "Minimal group" paradigms investigate social preferences arising from mere group membership. We asked whether demand characteristics contribute to children's apparent minimal group bias in a preregistered experiment (N = 160). In a group condition, we attempted to… read more here.
Keywords: characteristics contribute; group; group condition; demand characteristics ... See more keywords
The self as a representational base: my sense of ‘me’ shapes what I think ‘us’ looks like
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DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2025.2555463
Abstract: ABSTRACT Previous research shows that people mentally represent novel ingroup and outgroup faces differently in favor of their ingroup. How are people able to mentally represent faces of others whom they have never met before?… read more here.
Keywords: representational base; self representational; novel ingroup; sense ... See more keywords
Imposter syndrome? Check your biases
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DOI: 10.1111/acem.14473
Abstract: “Yeah, but everyone feels unqualified sometimes.” These words, spoken by a faculty member during a panel on imposter syndrome, gaslit me; the dismissal of an experience that is my own, the blindness to a topic… read more here.
Keywords: imposter syndrome; group; ingroup; medicine ... See more keywords
Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants' neural responses to people of different races.
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DOI: 10.1111/desc.13070
Abstract: Early in life, greater exposure to diverse people can change the tendency to prefer one's own social group. For instance, infants from racially diverse environments show less preference for their own-race (ingroup) over other-race (outgroup)… read more here.
Keywords: neural responses; neighborhood racial; outgroup individuals; ingroup ... See more keywords
The Intergroup and Contextual Determinants of Real‐World Religious Donations: An Experimental Test in Jerusalem
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DOI: 10.1111/jssr.12961
Abstract: Religious belief commonly relates to prosocial behavior, yet studies suggest that religious individuals tend to limit their prosociality to ingroup members. In this study, we conducted a door‐to‐door fundraising field experiment to investigate further religious… read more here.
Keywords: real world; determinants real; intergroup contextual; ingroup ... See more keywords
Political Ideology, Ingroup Favoritism, and Conspiratorial Thinking: Patriotism, Nationalism, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
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DOI: 10.1177/00332941221079727
Abstract: This article examined the relationship between ideology and conspiratorial thinking and the related mediating effect of ingroup favoritism in a non-Western society. We investigated patriotism and nationalism as two favorable orientations toward national ingroups. We… read more here.
Keywords: conspiracy; conspiracy theories; ideology; patriotism ... See more keywords
The Spatial Ingroup Bias: Ingroup Teams Are Positioned Where Writing Starts
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DOI: 10.1177/0146167220984297
Abstract: In four studies, we test the hypothesis that people, asked to envisage interactions between an ingroup and an outgroup, tend to spatially represent the ingroup where writing starts (e.g., left in Italian) and as acting… read more here.
Keywords: bias ingroup; ingroup bias; bias; writing starts ... See more keywords
Restoring Ingroup Status and Glory: Essentialism as Ingroup Preservation When Collective Victimhood Narratives Are Endorsed
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DOI: 10.1177/0261927x251323987
Abstract: This study examines whether a specific type of leader rhetoric, collective victimhood rhetoric, shapes social identity and group normative structure as ultra-distinctive and immutable. Following measures of outgroup (Muslim) vitality and ingroup existential identity-uncertainty, Indian… read more here.
Keywords: essentialism; collective victimhood; identity; victimhood ... See more keywords
Endorsing Narratives Under Threat: Maintaining Perceived Collective Continuity Through the Protective Power of Ingroup Narratives in Northern Ireland and Cyprus.
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DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v5i2.682
Abstract: In historically divided societies, narratives play an important role in understanding the maintenance and perception of identities and group status over time. Moving beyond the consequences of identity continuity perceptions, in this paper we were… read more here.
Keywords: collective continuity; continuity; perceived collective; threat ... See more keywords