Another view of “we”: Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity

Dovidio, John F.; Gaertner, Samuel L.; Saguy, Tamar

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“…We now know much about dominant group members' experiences, but research conducted on, and from the perspective of, dominant majority group members does not always generalize to members of lower-status, disadvantaged minority groups (e.g., Craig & Richeson, 2016;Dovidio, Gaertner, & Saguy, 2007;Shapiro et al, 2010;Shapiro & Neuberg, 2008). It is essential for social psychological research to incorporate research participants and frameworks that better reflect the broad diversity of human social behavior, attitudes, and cognition.…”

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Solidarity through shared disadvantage: Highlighting shared experiences of discrimination improves relations between stigmatized groups.

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Craig

Shapiro

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Intergroup relations research has largely focused on relations between members of dominant groups and members of disadvantaged groups. The small body of work examining intraminority intergroup relations, or relations between members of different disadvantaged groups, reveals that salient experiences of ingroup discrimination promote positive relations between groups that share a dimension of identity (e.g., 2 different racial minority groups) and negative relations between groups that do not share a dimension of identity (e.g., a racial minority group and a sexual minority group). In the present work, we propose that shared experiences of discrimination between groups that do not share an identity dimension can be used as a lever to facilitate positive intraminority intergroup relations. Five experiments examining relations among 4 different disadvantaged groups supported this hypothesis. Both blatant (Experiments 1 and 3) and subtle (Experiments 2, 3, and 4) connections to shared experiences of discrimination, or inducing a similarity-seeking mindset in the context of discrimination faced by one's ingroup (Experiment 5), increased support for policies benefiting the outgroup (Experiments 1, 2, and 4) and reduced intergroup bias (Experiments 3, 4, and 5). Taken together, these experiments provide converging evidence that highlighting shared experiences of discrimination can improve intergroup outcomes between stigmatized groups across dimensions of social identity. Implications of these findings for intraminority intergroup relations are discussed.

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Solidarity through shared disadvantage: Highlighting shared experiences of discrimination improves relations between stigmatized groups.

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Craig

Shapiro

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Specifically, CIIM distinguishes four contact conditions which lead to individual and group level outcomes ; see also Dovidio et al, 2007 Crisp et al (2006) found that children who were in the dual-identity condition perceived their contact counterpart (i.e., refugees) in the most positive light. Similarly, Gaertner et al's (1994) study investigating the function of CIIM revealed that the one group condition was positively associated with contact quality and intergroup attitudes.…”

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“…According to SCT, various identities, such as identities based on cultural, gender, religious, and age groups, are inherent nature of human beings (Dovidio, Gaertner, & Saguy, 2007). In addition, different identities become salient in different contact contexts (Dovidio et al, 2007). In intercultural contexts where cultural group membership is inevitably predominant, individuals tend to categorize their contact counterparts as a part of different cultural groups.…”

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“…Status difference is tied to the group size, and the group with a larger size has power over economic security, politics, and opportunity for social advancement (Dovidio et al, 2007). Due to the power difference, members of the majority and minority status groups have different motivations for and perceptions of intergroup relations (Dovidio et al, 2007).…”

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“…Therefore, by shifting the focal point of reference in categorizing others, individuals are able to make cognitive adjustments in perceiving others. According to SCT, various identities, such as identities based on cultural, gender, religious, and age groups, are inherent nature of human beings (Dovidio, Gaertner, & Saguy, 2007). In addition, different identities become salient in different contact contexts (Dovidio et al, 2007).…”

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Zhang

2014

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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nationals' perceptions of Chinese international students' cultural adaptation strategies and the effects of the strategies on American host nationals' willingness to communicate with the Chinese students. In addition, the current study also examined the indirect effects of the adaptation strategies through American host nationals' perceptions of anxiety in communicating with and social attractiveness of the Chinese students on willingness to communicate with the Chinese students.Four scenarios describing Chinese international students' cultural adaptation strategies (i.e., assimilation, integration, separation, and marginalization) were developed based on CIIM and the acculturation framework. Prior to the main study, two pilot studies (N = 113 in pilot 1, N = 60 in pilot 2) were conducted to examine the validity of the manipulation of the four strategies along two conceptual dimensions: identification with home culture (i.e., Chinese culture) and identification with the host culture (i.e., American culture). In the main study, EuropeanAmerican participants (N = 284) were asked to report their demographic information, strength of identification with American culture, and attitudes toward Chinese people in general. Then, they were randomly assigned to one of the four experimental conditions in which they read a scenario describing a Chinese international student's cultural adaptation strategy. After reading the scenario, participants answered questions measuring their perceptions of the cultural adaptation iv strategy used by the Chinese international student described in the scenario. Then, they reported their perceptions of willingness to communicate with, social attractiveness of, and interpersonal communication anxiety with the Chinese student.Hypothesis 1 predicted that participants' perceptions of willingness to communicate with the Chinese international student would vary with the experimental conditions. Partially supporting Hypothesis 1, univariate analysis of variance results revealed that participants were more willing to communicate with the assimilated and integrated Chinese students than with the separated and marginalized students. Hypothesis 2 predicted that participants' judgments of the Chinese international student would vary depending on the experimental conditions. Partially supporting Hypothesis 2, multivariate analysis of variance results revealed that the assimilated and integrated Chinese students were judged more positively than the separated or marginalized

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Postmes

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Restoring Civil Societies

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Another view of “we”: Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity

Cited by 346 publications

References 73 publications

Solidarity through shared disadvantage: Highlighting shared experiences of discrimination improves relations between stigmatized groups.

Solidarity through shared disadvantage: Highlighting shared experiences of discrimination improves relations between stigmatized groups.

Functions of the common ingroup identity model and acculturation strategies in intercultural communication: American host nationals’ communication with Chinese international students

Humanizing Others Without Normalizing Harm

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