Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality?

Zomeren, van Martijn; Postmes, Tom; Spears, Russell; Bettache, Karim

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“…As emancipation movements are defined by shared goals rather than mere category membership, they can leave room for allies from advantaged outgroups and thus offer a shared identity. Identifying with the disadvantaged is, in turn, associated with collective action intentions (van Zomeren, Postmes, Spears, & Bettache, 2011).…”

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Intergroup Contact and Social Change

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Previous research has shown that (1) positive intergroup contact with an advantaged group can discourage collective action among disadvantaged-group members and (2) positive intergroup contact can encourage advantaged-group members to take action on behalf of disadvantaged outgroups. Two studies investigated the effects of negative as well as positive intergroup contact.Study 1 (N = 482) found that negative but not positive contact with heterosexual people was associated with sexual-minority students' engagement in collective action (via group identification and perceived discrimination). Among heterosexual students, positive and negative contact were associated with, respectively, more and less LGB activism. Study 2 (N = 1,469) found that only negative contact (via perceived discrimination) predicted LGBT students' collective action intentions longitudinally while only positive contact predicted heterosexual/cisgender students'LGBT activism. Implications for the relationship between intergroup contact, collective action, and social change are discussed.

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“…The psychological pathway by which third parties and outsiders come to appraise a conflict and take collective action is also relatively unexplored (but see Saeri et al, 2015). New research suggest that stable, personal beliefs including moral convictions, Social Dominance Orientation, and Right-wing Authoritarianism can shape appraisals of intergroup conflict and subsequent collective action (Saeri et al, 2015;van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2012;van Zomeren, Postmes, Spears, & Bettache, 2011). In this work, we investigate how personal values might shape an outsider's appraisals of an external group conflict and lead to collective action.…”

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“…However, recent work has begun to investigate how more stable, personal beliefs may shape these more proximal appraisals. Van Zomeren and colleagues (van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2012;van Zomeren, Postmes, Spears, & Bettache, 2011) have shown that personal moral convictions about group conflict (e.g., believing that mainland Chinese deserve greater political freedom) can indirectly predict collective action intentions by fostering identification with the affected group. Saeri et al (2015) have shown that personal political ideologies of Social Dominance Orientation (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994) and Right-wing Authoritarianism (Altemeyer, 1981) can shape proximal appraisals both sympathetic to a disadvantaged group (e.g., Russian protestors against government corruption) and sympathetic to an advantaged group (e.g., the Russian government with a goal of quelling protests).…”

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Personal values about change and status quo influence outsiders' appraisals of intergroup conflict

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“…The psychological pathway by which third parties and outsiders come to appraise a conflict and take collective action is also relatively unexplored (but see Saeri et al, in press). New research suggest that stable, personal beliefs including moral convictions, Social Dominance Orientation, and Right-wing Authoritarianism can shape appraisals of intergroup conflict and subsequent collective action (Saeri et al, in press;van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2012;van Zomeren, Postmes, Spears, & Bettache, 2011). In this work, we investigate how personal values might shape an outsider's appraisals of an external group conflict and lead to collective action.…”

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“…Members of high-status group may act to defend their status against an agitating low-status group (Ellemers, Doosje, Van Knippenberg, & Wilke, 1992;Iyer, Leach, & Crosby, 2003;Leach, Snider, & Iyer, 2002), rather than merely failing to support the low-status group. Moral convictions, as stable and inviolable attitudes about a specific intergroup conflict, have been found to predict collective action intentions (van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2012;van Zomeren, Postmes, Spears, & Bettache, 2011). But each of these embedded assumptions is challenged by outsider collective action.…”

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Collective action by outsiders to group conflict and inequality

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Every day, people around the world struggle and strive as they challenge injustice and inequality through collective action. They petition, they protest, and they call for changes in public policy to secure rights and status for themselves and for the groups to which they belong. From revolutions in the Arab Spring, to reactionary demonstrations by the US Tea Party, to worldwide protests of Russia's annexing of Crimea, the twenty-first century has seen people on the march.Most existing social psychological research into collective action has focused on understanding the motives for collective action by people who are directly involved in a context of group conflict or inequality ("insiders"). But will external observers ("outsiders") also take collective action when they encounter an external conflict? Who will they support in that conflict? Do their motives for intervening through collective action differ from those of insiders? In this thesis I aim to answer these questions.Chapter 1 establishes the need to consider outsiders as potential collective actors. I review the existing collective action literature and discuss its historical and current focus on insiders. I then introduce outsiders, hypothesise how they may differ from insiders, and argue for the importance of understanding how outsiders respond when they encounter group conflict.Chapter 2 includes two studies that sought to determine (1) whether outsiders are willing to take collective action on behalf of an external conflict, and (2) whether outsiders and insiders' motives for action differ. I used the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA; van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2008) to measure appraisals of income inequality in the United States by residents of both the US (insiders) and India (outsiders). SIMCA is a well-established framework for explaining insider collective action, and specifies that group identification, perceived injustice, and perceived group efficacy are each unique motives for collective action. In both studies, outsiders were willing to take collective action. In addition, both outsiders' and insiders' motives for action could be captured using the SIMCA framework. Outsiders perceived the conflict as less self-relevant than insiders, and reported less identification with the disadvantaged group than insiders; a personal connection with the group conflict or inequality is thus necessary for outsiders to take collective action. To understand and predict outsider collective action, I must then investigate how outsiders come to see an instance of group conflict as self-relevant.Chapter 3 explores how ideological orientations shape outsiders' appraisals of a group conflict, and whether outsiders may also choose to support a relatively advantaged group in conflict.In two studies, I investigated how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO; Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994) and Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA;Altemeyer, 1996) shape US residents' appraisals of separate conflicts between disadvantaged citizens an...

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Can moral convictions motivate the advantaged to challenge social inequality?

Cited by 225 publications

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Intergroup Contact and Social Change

Intergroup Contact and Social Change

Personal values about change and status quo influence outsiders' appraisals of intergroup conflict

Collective action by outsiders to group conflict and inequality

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