I-Sharing and a Classic Conformity Paradigm

Pinel, Elizabeth C.; Long, Anson E.; Crimin, Leslie A.

doi:10.1521/soco.2010.28.3.277

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“…For this manipulation, we required a stimulus that would evoke a subjective experience in the participant without also making the objective self‐salient. In past research, Pinel and colleagues have utilized a task in which participants give their gut‐level reactions to absurd and novel questions about celebrities (Pinel & Long, ; Pinel et al ., ). Here, we conceptually replicated this methodology by asking participants to give their gut‐level reaction to novel inkblots (see also Pinel et al ., ).…”

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“…Next, the experimenter left the room while participants worked their way through the computer portion of the study. This portion included a measure of demographics, for which participants indicated their age, racial identification, and gender identification along with the Existential Isolation Scale (Pinel, Long, Murdoch et al ., ; Pinel & Long, ; Pinel, Long, & Crimin, ) and a measure of perceived entitativity (Rydell & McConnell, ). We included both of these measures as tests of different hypotheses and thus do not discuss them further here.…”

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Human like me: Evidence that I‐sharing humanizes the otherwise dehumanized

Pinel

Yawger

Long

et al. 2017

British J Social Psychol

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People persistently undermine the humanness of outgroup members, leaving researchers perplexed as to how to address this problem of 'dehumanization' (Haslam & Loughnan, , Ann Rev of Psychol, 65, 399; Leyens, , Group Process Intergroup Relat, 12, 807). Here, we test whether I-sharing (i.e., sharing a subjective experience) counters this tendency by promoting the humanization of outgroup members. In Study 1, White participants had a face-to-face meeting with a White or Black confederate and either did or did not I-share with this confederate. The extent to which participants humanized the outgroup member depended on whether or not they I-shared with her. Study 2 tested the effect of I-sharing on the two distinct dimensions of dehumanization (Haslam, , Pers Soc Psychol Rev, 10, 252). Conceptually replicating the results of Study 1, participants who I-shared with a social class ingroup or outgroup member rated their partner as higher in human nature than those who did not I-share with their partner. These results add to the growing literature on I-sharing's implications for intergroup processes and suggest effective ways of tackling a persistent problem.

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Human like me: Evidence that I‐sharing humanizes the otherwise dehumanized

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Yawger

Long

et al. 2017

British J Social Psychol

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“…In this instance, the soldier came to perceive his fellow group members as kin-like, referring to them as "brothers," despite the absence of a biological relationship with them. In fact, some evidence suggests that sharing subjective experiences with others may be a more powerful predictor of attachment to fellow group members than the perception of shared objective qualities (Atran, 2010;Drury, 2011;Pinel et al, 2008Pinel et al, , 2010Pinel et al, , 2006. Moreover, shared experiences seem to be particularly potent in facilitating attachment to others when the experiences are challenging or traumatic rather than positive (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer, & Vohs, 2001).…”

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When group membership gets personal: A theory of identity fusion.

Swann

Jetten

Gómez

et al. 2012

Psychological Review

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Identity fusion is a relatively unexplored form of alignment with groups that entails a visceral feeling of oneness with the group. This feeling is associated with unusually porous, highly permeable borders between the personal and social self. These porous borders encourage people to channel their personal agency into group behavior, raising the possibility that the personal and social self will combine synergistically to motivate pro-group behavior. Furthermore, the strong personal as well as social identities possessed by highly fused persons cause them to recognize other group members not merely as members of the group but also as unique individuals, prompting the development of strong relational as well as collective ties within the group. In local fusion, people develop relational ties to members of relatively small groups (e.g., families or work teams) with whom they have personal relationships. In extended fusion, people project relational ties onto relatively large collectives composed of many individuals with whom they may have no personal relationships. The research literature indicates that measures of fusion are exceptionally strong predictors of extreme pro-group behavior. Moreover, fusion effects are amplified by augmenting individual agency, either directly (by increasing physiological arousal) or indirectly (by activating personal or social identities). The effects of fusion on pro-group actions are mediated by perceptions of arousal and invulnerability. Possible causes of identity fusion--ranging from relatively distal, evolutionary, and cultural influences to more proximal, contextual influences--are discussed. Finally, implications and future directions are considered.

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“…To help draw out the distinction between the Me and the I, Pinel and colleagues have frequently used a mirror analogy (Pinel et al, 2006;Pinel, Long, & Crimin, 2010). When one looks in a mirror, the image that one sees and all that is known about the self from it, represents a part of the Me.…”

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“…How does one go about studying these two ostensibly unique forms of similarity? Pinel and colleagues (Pinel et al, 2006;Pinel, Long, & Crimin, 2008;Pinel, Long, & Crimin, 2010;Pinel & Long, 2012; have successfully done so by manipulating the cues that I-SHARING AND SELFLESSNESS 6 offer the most foolproof evidence of I-sharing. These consist of simultaneous and identical reactions to the same stimulus.…”

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Fostering selflessness through I-sharing

Huneke

Pinel

2016

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Although previous research has shown that perceived objective similarity (Me-sharing) and perceived subjective similarity (I-sharing) both increase liking for strangers, perceived subjective similarity may have a unique effect on selflessness. Study 1 addressed this possibility by focusing on whether I-sharing (but not Me-sharing) promotes greater willingness to share a desired good. After interacting with three ostensible partners (an I-sharer, a Me-sharer, and a Not Similar Other), participants indicated their liking for each of these partners and distributed a desired good between themselves and each partner. Although participants reported higher liking for both the I-sharer and the Me-sharer than for the dissimilar other, when it came to the allocation of the desired good, they showed generosity only to the I-sharer. Study 2 addressed questions lingering from Study 1 by manipulating I-sharing and Me-sharing in a between participants design, by equalizing the importance of the I-sharing and Me-sharing dimensions, and by looking at a separate indicator of selflessness (i.e., helping intentions). Results conceptually replicated those of Study 1, with participants reporting significantly higher helping intentions when they I-shared with their partner than when they Me-shared with their partner (even though participants reported equivalent levels of liking in both partner conditions). Taken, together these findings suggest that subjective similarity contributes uniquely to a person's ability to behave selflessly.

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I-Sharing and a Classic Conformity Paradigm

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

Human like me: Evidence that I‐sharing humanizes the otherwise dehumanized

Human like me: Evidence that I‐sharing humanizes the otherwise dehumanized

When group membership gets personal: A theory of identity fusion.

Fostering selflessness through I-sharing

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