Group identification moderates attitudes toward ingroup members who confront discrimination |
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Authors: | Cheryl R Kaiser Nao Hagiwara Lori W Malahy Clara L Wilkins |
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Institution: | a Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Box 351525, Seattle, WA 98195-1525, United States b Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1114, United States |
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Abstract: | Three studies examined the hypothesis that group identification moderates African Americans’, Asian Americans’, and women’s attitudes toward fellow ingroup members who challenge an outgroup member’s discriminatory comments or who do not speak up about the comments. Highly identified racial minorities expressed more positive attitudes toward ingroup members who confronted discriminatory comments compared to those who did not confront; whereas weakly identified minorities did not express different attitudes across the two conditions. Among women, the weakly identified expressed more negative attitudes toward other women who confronted discrimination relative to those who did not confront; whereas highly identified women did not differentially evaluate ingroup members in the two conditions. The less women identified with their group, the more negatively they evaluated ingroup members who confronted sexism. This research highlights the important role of group identification in understanding how members of devalued groups respond toward ingroup members who take a stand against discrimination. |
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Keywords: | Confronting discrimination Group identity Stigma Ingroup Racism Sexism Self Social perception |
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