Seeing Through Their Eyes: When Majority Group Members Take Collective Action on Behalf of an Outgroup

Mallett, Robyn K.; Huntsinger, Jeffrey R.; Sinclair, Stacey; Swim, Janet K.

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“…As a result of feeling group-based guilt, Whites support affi rmative action for Blacks (Swim & Miller, 1999), and both Whites and heterosexuals take collective action on behalf of Blacks and non-heterosexuals (Mallett, et al, 2006). Yet feelings of group-based guilt are relatively rare compared to other group-based emotions .…”

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The Influence of Inequality, Responsibility and Justifiability on Reports of Group-Based Guilt for Ingroup Privilege

Mallett

Swim

2007

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Although members of several social groups report feeling guilt because of their group’s actions, average reports of group-based guilt tend to be quite low. We investigate three antecedents of group-based guilt derived from research on social justice and interpersonal emotion. We find that Whites, men and women perceive inequality, responsibility and justifiability of group differences to the same extent. Moreover, each factor is a key antecedent of guilt for Whites, men and women. We also find an interaction between justifiability and responsibility such that reports of group-based guilt increase as perceptions of ingroup responsibility increase and justifications for group differences decrease. Given the beneficial consequences of group-based guilt for intergroup relations, it is important to understand what factors lead to group-based guilt.

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The Influence of Inequality, Responsibility and Justifiability on Reports of Group-Based Guilt for Ingroup Privilege

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Swim

2007

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“…Allport (30) proposed that intensive interaction with outgroup members could help to know the outgroup members personally, not only base on group stereotype features. This mechanism would break the thick wall separation between ingroup and outgroup, help to perceive from outgroup perspectives, so that conflict could be minimized and the possibility of social discrimination could be reduced (30,31).…”

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Dynamics of Intergroup Relations among Indonesian Youth

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Kartikawangi²,

Ajisuksmo³

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The richness of social, cultural and religious diversity of Indonesia is a unique and relevant context for stimulating intergroup relationships. In such context, maintaining social harmony is a challenge because group identity is easily salient. This study aims to picture intergroup relationships among Indonesian youth, who will take main roles on the future of this country. They are also potential change agents for communities. Specifically, this study explores and identifies salient social, cultural and religion group categorization among college students in Indonesia. Furthermore, this study examines the level of outgroup trust and the level of accommodative communication practicing in interaction with members of outgroup. This study also pays a particular attention on exploring the role models for Indonesian youth in communication. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are implemented using questionnaires and focus group discussions. 1197 college students from five universities in four big cities in Indonesia are participated. The findings show that the group categories salient are religion, ethnicity, and clan/family memberships. This indicates that strong group identity is highly likely to be built mainly based on those categorizations, which would be used as a basis to make distinction who belongs to the ingroup and the outgroup. The findings also identify the low of outgroup trust among the participants, particularly on benevolence dimension. The findings are in line with the assumption that less positive evaluation, specifically on affective basis tend to be given to people from different group identity. Furthermore, participants also tend to avoid interaction with outgroups, and to express such a non-accommodative communication in interaction with members of outgroups. Almost thirty percent of the participants does not have role models in communication may take role on the results. They do not have sufficient references to communicating accommodatively with members of outgroups. While a few participants have an attitude of openness to differences, most of them appear reluctant to have intensive interaction with members of outgroups due to negative anticipation and feeling uncomfortable in dealing with outgroups. The implication from this study is that the context of diversity in Indonesia needs to be managed, particularly for the young generation, so the negative impact of low of outgroup trust and less positive communication with members of outgroups could be minimized.

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“…Second, taking out-group perspectives motivates individuals to engage in collective action for equal rights on behalf of the out-group (Batson, Chang, Orr, & Rowland, 2002;Mallett, Huntsinger, Sinclair, & Swim, 2008;Shih et al, 2009). Given that positive contact is reliably associated with empathy and that empathy is reliably associated with collective action, it is likely that positive contact should enhance collective action for equal rights via increased empathy.…”

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The Psychological Benefits and Costs of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact

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Seeing Through Their Eyes: When Majority Group Members Take Collective Action on Behalf of an Outgroup

Cited by 149 publications

References 44 publications

The Influence of Inequality, Responsibility and Justifiability on Reports of Group-Based Guilt for Ingroup Privilege

The Influence of Inequality, Responsibility and Justifiability on Reports of Group-Based Guilt for Ingroup Privilege

Dynamics of Intergroup Relations among Indonesian Youth

The Psychological Benefits and Costs of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact

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