- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 3
- On the relationship...
- Autor(in)
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International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World
- Erschienen
- 5. Mai 2009
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2009-032
- Schlagwort(e)
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criticism
distance
social identity threat
- Zusammenfsg.
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We investigated the dependence of threat perception and reaction on social distance estimation. Social identity threat was imposed within a 2x2 between subjects design, with N=163 students reading a criticising comment about their ingroup assigned to originate from one of two possible outgroups. The participants completed parts of the scale Overlap of self, ingroup and outgroup (OSIO, Schubert and Otten, 2002) as a measure of social distance either before or after the threat manipulation. Results show signifiantly differing social distance estimations as a reaction towards the threatening comment depending on the criticising utgroup. The implications of these findings and the possibility of social distancing being another kind of defensive mechanism towards social identity threat are discussed.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances