Group status, group size and attitude polarization

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daan Van Knippenberg ◽  
Nanne De Vries ◽  
Ad Van Knippenberg
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Status Group ◽  
Attitude Polarization

Group size, group status and trait valence as determinants of intergroup bias: Stereotyping in Finland and Sweden

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 637-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karmela Liebkind ◽  
Anna Henning-Lindblom ◽  
Erling Solheim
Keyword(s):  
Group Size ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Size Group ◽  
Group Status

Group status, group bias, and adolescents' reasoning about the treatment of others in school contexts

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey S. Horn
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
High Status ◽  
Group Status ◽  
School Contexts ◽  
Status Group ◽  
School Activities ◽  
Social Reference ◽  
Group Members

This study investigated how social group status and group bias are related to adolescents' reasoning about social acceptance. Ninth and eleventh-grade students ( N = 379) were asked to make judgments about the inclusion of individuals in school activities based on their peer crowd membership. The results of the study revealed that both participants' and the targets' social reference group status were related to adolescents' judgments about participation in school activities. Overall, high status group members were chosen more than low status group members to participate in school activities. Adolescents who identified themselves with high status groups, however, were significantly more likely to choose a high status target than adolescents identifying with low status groups or those listing no group at all. Further, these adolescents were more likely than adolescents who identified themselves with low status groups or listed no group to use conventional reasoning and less likely to use moral reasoning when justifying their judgments.

scholarly journals Fuming with rage! Do members of low status groups signal anger more than members of high status groups? An eye-tracking study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuma Kevin Owuamalam ◽  
Mark Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
High Status ◽  
Alternative Possibility ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Status Group ◽  
Physiological Signal ◽  
Disinhibition Effect ◽  
Reputational Concerns

Owuamalam, Weerabangsa, Karunagharan, and Rubin (2016) found that Malaysians associate people in low status group with anger more than their higher status counterparts: the hunchback heuristic. But is this belief accurate? Here, we propose the alternative possibility that members of low-status groups might deliberately suppress anger to counter this stigma, while members of high-status groups might disinhibit their anger to assert their superiority. To test these propositions, we manipulated undergraduate students’ relative group status by leading them to believe that provocative comments about their ingroup came from a professor (low-status condition) or a junior foundation year student (high-status condition). Using eye-tracking, we then measured their gaze durations on the comments, which we used as a physiological signal of anger: dwelling (Experiment 1). Results revealed that dwelling was significantly greater in the high-status condition than in the low-status condition. Experiment 2 conceptually replicated this pattern using a self-report method and found that the suppression-disinhibition effect occurred only when reputational concerns were strong.

scholarly journals When High Group Status Becomes a Burden

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Täuber ◽  
Esther van Leeuwen
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Public Image ◽  
High Status ◽  
Group Status ◽  
High Group ◽  
Status Group ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Strategic Motives

The present paper investigates the strategic motives that guide the quest for outgroup resources. Resources can be retrieved through spying and requesting help. Whereas both methods are means of obtaining valued resources from the outgroup, spying secures the ingroup’s public image, while requesting help potentially damages this image by displaying the ingroup as incompetent and dependent. Two experiments (N = 99 and N = 99) supported the prediction that, when social change is feasible, members of high status groups spy more on the lower status group than vice versa. No difference was found in either study in the amount of help requested from the outgroup. Results from the second study showed that the effect did not occur when status relations were legitimate and thus unlikely to change. These findings advance our understanding of intergroup helping by demonstrating that strategic motives fundamentally shape aspects of help-seeking between groups.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF GROUP STATUS ON IN-GROUP IDENTIFICATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-253
Author(s):  
Milen Milanov
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Group Status ◽  
Status Group ◽  
Study Condition ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Status ◽  
Identification Research

The main goal of the present research was to investigate the effect that group status had on different types of identification with social groups. In addition, the study aimed to provide further support for the distinction between centrality, social, communal, and interdependent types of in-group identity. It experimentally manipulated the status of laboratory-based groups in order to examine whether membership in a low status group would be associated with an increase only in social identification and whether this effect would be moderated by culture. Consistent with predictions, the results from a series of 2x2 between-subjects ANOVAs (N=108) revealed that a significant main effect of study condition (group status) occurred in relation to social identification but not in relation to centrality, communal, and interdependent identification. Participants in the moderately positive status group scored significantly higher on social identification than participants in the extremely positive status group. As expected, this main effect was qualified by culture with only collectivistic individuals’ in-group identification differing significantly between the two conditions. The present work adds to the findings of previous research that has examined the link between group status and in-group identification and could be used to address new issues in the group identification research.

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