scholarly journals Feeling like a group after a natural disaster: Common ingroup identity and relations with outgroup victims among majority and minority young children

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loris Vezzali ◽  
Alessia Cadamuro ◽  
Annalisa Versari ◽  
Dino Giovannini ◽  
Elena Trifiletti
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Common Ingroup Identity ◽  
Ingroup Identity

scholarly journals Virtual Reality and Political Outgroup Contact: Can Avatar Customization and Common Ingroup Identity Reduce Social Distance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630512199376
Author(s):  
Jorge Peña ◽  
Grace Wolff ◽  
Magdalena Wojcieszak
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Identity Salience ◽  
Physical Identity ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Issue Involvement ◽  
Boomerang Effects ◽  
Common Ingroup Identity ◽  
Ingroup Identity

This study ( N = 217) explores the potential for virtual reality to decrease social distance toward outgroup members among women. Raising the salience of individuals’ real physical identity through avatar customization and common ingroup identity manipulations was theorized to influence social distance. Participants who customized an avatar to resemble their real selves showed increased social distance. However, avatar customization also increased user identifiability, which was linked to reduced social distance. Priming a common ingroup identity increased identity salience but did not influence social distance. In examining heterogeneous effects by prior levels of issue involvement, participants with high and moderate involvement with immigration showed increased social distance after customizing an avatar to resemble their real selves, thus implying boomerang effects. The study discusses how avatar customization, identifiability, and common ingroup primes in virtual encounters may influence outgroup attitudes and intergroup relations.

scholarly journals Sleep deprivation undermines the link between identity and intergroup bias

SLEEP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinxiao Zhang ◽  
Yang Yang ◽  
Ying-Yi Hong
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Deprivation ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Intergroup Bias ◽  
Sleep Study ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Common Identity ◽  
Common Ingroup Identity ◽  
The One ◽  
Ingroup Identity

Abstract This research seeks to bridge two findings—on the one hand, top-down controlled processes inhibit display of intergroup bias; on the other one hand, sleep deprivation impairs cognitive control processes. Connecting these two proven statements, begs the question: would sleep deprivation also influence intergroup bias? This intriguing link has hardly been explored in extant literature. To fill this gap, we theorize through the lens of social identity. Previous research has shown that individuals who share a common identity with an outgroup are more motivated to inhibit biases toward the outgroup than do their counterparts who do not endorse such common identity. We predicted that this motivated inhibition would be compromised by sleep deprivation. Across two studies, as predicted, we found that only when an individual has adequate sleep did common ingroup identity attenuate the display of intergroup bias, whereas individuals with short habitual sleep (study 1) or after one-night sleep deprivation (study 2) displayed equally high levels of intergroup bias regardless of their high or low levels of common ingroup identity. In the global context of incessant intergroup bias and diminishing sleep time, our findings offer new insights for understanding and handling intergroup bias.

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