Examining dispositional and situational effects on outgroup attitudes

Meeus, Joke; Duriez, Bart; Vanbeselaere, Norbert; Phalet, Karen; Kuppens, Peter

doi:10.1002/per.710

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“…Halabi et al (2008) found that high SDOs offered less help to a hypothetical outgroup member under conditions of status threat. However, others report nonsignificant SDO Â experimental threat interactions (Cohrs & Asbrock, 2009;Meeus, Duriez, Vanbeselaere, Phalet, & Kuppens, 2009). These inconsistent findings pertaining to SDO Â threat effects within experimental contexts heightens the need for additional experimental research.…”

Section: Social Dominance-based Reactions To Intergroup Threatmentioning

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Social dominance‐based threat reactions to immigrants in need of assistance

Costello¹,

Hodson²

2011

Euro J Social Psych

111

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The present investigation examined how individuals higher in social dominance orientation (SDO) react to experimentally induced intergroup threat in terms of support for helping immigrants. Participants read editorials describing an incoming immigrant outgroup posing realistic threats (to tangible resources and well-being), symbolic threats (to values and traditions) or no threats. Participants higher in SDO exhibited greater resistance to helping immigrants upon exposure to realistic, symbolic, (Experiments 1 and 2), or combined realistic-symbolic (Experiment 2) intergroup threats, but not when the same immigrants posed no threats. In Experiment 2, SDO exerted indirect effects on modern prejudice through both heightened infra-humanization and intergroup anxiety, with modern prejudice itself predicting greater resistance and indifference to helping immigrants. Moderated mediation analyses revealed strongest SDO-infra-humanization relations under conditions of symbolic threat. Implications for prejudice-reduction interventions are considered. Copyright # 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Despite increasing immigration rates, broadening immigration policies, and acclaimed preferences for multiculturalism, immigrants continue to face resistance by host societies (Reitz & Banerjee, 2007). Discrimination clearly affects the ability for immigrants to integrate successfully, creating a pressing need for research on the acceptance and integration of immigrants into host societies. In the present investigation, we explore how person and situational factors affect the willingness of host society members to help an incoming immigrant group.Ideological orientations that maintain intergroup status differentials are particularly relevant to this discussion. According to Social Dominance Theory (SDT), human societies are naturally characterized by hierarchical power structures, with dominant social groups motivated to endorse ideologies justifying intergroup hierarchies and social inequality (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994). Central to SDT are broad hierarchy-enhancing myths, such as prejudice (e.g., racism, sexism), that serve to legitimize the subordination and discrimination of groups lower in the social hierarchy (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). Within the broader SDT framework, social dominance orientation (SDO) represents an ideological orientation toward intergroup dominance that differs among individuals. Those higher in SDO see the world as a ''competitive jungle '' (Duckitt, Wagner, du Plessis, & Birum, 2002) perceiving outgroups as sources of threat (Esses, Hodson, & Dovidio, 2003). SDO is one of the most potent individual difference predictors of prejudice (Altemeyer, 1998;Sidanius & Pratto, 1999), particularly toward ''inferior'' outgroups seeking higher status (Duckitt, 2006). Relevant to the present context, heightened SDO predicts negative attitudes toward immigrants (Costello & Hodson, 2010;Hodson & Costello, 2007), and favorable attitudes toward policies stressing dominance over immigrants (Pratto & ...

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Section: Social Dominance-based Reactions To Intergroup Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dominance‐based threat reactions to immigrants in need of assistance

Costello¹,

Hodson²

2011

Euro J Social Psych

111

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“…This hypothesis stems from research on the power motive (Winter, 1973), the power-as-control model (Fiske, 1993), and the approach-inhibition perspective (Keltner, Gruenfeld, & Anderson, 2003). Accordingly, chronic motives may affect implicit judgments (see Meeus, Duriez, Vanbeselaere, Phalet, & Kuppens, 2009;Pratto & Shih, 2000). Furthermore, power may increase automatic social cognition, and powerlessness may trigger controlled cognition (Keltner et al, 2003;see also Fiske, 1993;Guinote, 2007a).…”

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Social power increases implicit prejudice

Guinote

Willis

Martellotta

2010

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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“…; Meeus et al. ). In addition, in line with the idea that individuals who identify themselves strongly with their national in‐group start behaving in accordance with existing in‐group norms, longitudinal data collected among Dutch‐speaking Belgians in Flanders show that the relation between Flemish identification and out‐group derogation is mediated by the way in which people represent citizenship: the more Flemish people identify with the Flemish in‐group, the more ethnic their citizenship representation becomes, and as a result, the more negative their out‐group attitudes become (Meeus et al.…”

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Which national group will I identify myself with? The role of preferred and perceived identity representations

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Reijerse

Luyckx

et al. 2013

Nations and Nationalism

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ABSTRACT. Research shows that the more people identify with a national in-group, the more their citizenship representation becomes in line with the citizenship discourse attached to this national-identity. However, although national identification may lead to a preference for a specific citizenship representation, national identification might itself depend on preexisting citizenship representation preferences. In line with this, a longitudinal study among Flemish-Belgian high-school students (N = 275) showed reciprocal relations between national identification and citizenship representation. A second study among Flemish-Belgian high-school students (N = 407) then showed that strength of national identification does not simply depend on preexisting citizenship representation preferences but on the (mis)match between such preferences and the citizenship representation perceived to be attached to a national-identity. In addition, results showed that the relation between national identification and out-group attitudes depends on the national-identity under consideration.

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Examining dispositional and situational effects on outgroup attitudes

Cited by 28 publications

References 33 publications

Social dominance‐based threat reactions to immigrants in need of assistance

Social dominance‐based threat reactions to immigrants in need of assistance

Social power increases implicit prejudice

Which national group will I identify myself with? The role of preferred and perceived identity representations

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