Group-based emotion in group processes and intergroup relations

Mackie, Diane M.; Smith, Eliot R.

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“…Diane Mackie and Eliot Smith (2017) outline their groundbreaking theorizing and research on group-based emotion. Although the advent of multilevel modelling now makes the idea of group-level variance quite unextraordinary, when this theory was first developed it made researchers think differently about what an emotion is.…”

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Twenty years of group processes and intergroup relations research: A review of past progress and future prospects

Abrams

Hogg

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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The 20th anniversary of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations offers an opportunity to reflect on progress in research. We describe the changing context of research and the scope and progress in the field. This special issue includes reviews by distinguished scholars in the areas of social identity, ideology, crowds, intergroup contact, crossed and multiple social categorization, communication, majority–minority conflict, group-based emotion, group decision making, group performance, ostracism, and social-cognitive development. Achievements and current knowledge in all of these areas are raising significant new questions, challenges, and opportunities for future research, strongly demonstrating the growing scientific strength and societal relevance of research in group processes and intergroup relations.

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Section: The Anniversary Issuementioning

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Twenty years of group processes and intergroup relations research: A review of past progress and future prospects

Abrams

Hogg

2017

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…However, emotions are time‐dependent responses to environmental cues (Smith & Mackie, ) that predict intergroup outcomes whereas attitudes are typically stable over time and do not predict similar time‐dependent responses to stimuli (Maitner, Mackie, & Smith, ; Prislin, ; Smith & Mackie, ). Previous research has demonstrated the distinct predictive advantage that specific group‐level emotion‐based measures have over group‐level attitude‐based measures for explaining intergroup phenomena (Mackie & Smith, ; Ray, Mackie, Smith & Terman, ; Seger, Banerji, Park, Smith, & Mackie, ), suggesting that meta‐emotions and meta‐attitudes are not interchangeable. Furthermore, we intentionally measured meta‐emotions by assessing perceptions of the outgroup’s specific emotions rather than the general evaluations that meta‐attitudinal measurement would entail (e.g., ‘the outgroup thinks religion is outdated’; Schwarz, ).…”

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Group‐based meta‐emotion and emotion responses to intergroup threat

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Mackie

Tausch

2019

British J Social Psychol

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In a secularizing world, religious groups are increasingly threatened by anti‐religious groups. We present two studies investigating religious peoples’ responses to anti‐religious threats. We expected intergroup threats to shape group‐based emotions and behavioural intentions through a novel pathway whereby threat affects group‐based meta‐emotions: the ingroup’s perception of the outgroup’s emotions towards the ingroup. In Study 1, we experimentally manipulated threat and group salience with participants from two different cultures (British and Latinx/Hispanic). Study 1 demonstrated non‐interactive effects of threat increasing negative emotional responses and of group salience strengthening emotional responses. The results illustrated the role of group‐based meta‐emotions in predicting outgroup‐directed emotions and behavioural response intentions. Study 2 used a different manipulation of threat in an American sample and an identity‐based manipulation of salience to assess the impact of real‐world anti‐religious campaigns involving symbolic and realistic threats. Both threat types increased negative group‐based meta‐emotions, negative outgroup‐directed emotions, desire to respond, and opposition to the anti‐religious campaign compared to no threat. Overall, religious identity salience had little impact on outcomes. The indirect pathway through meta‐emotion replicated, suggesting the importance of considering this novel meta‐emotion pathway in intergroup relations.

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“…We add a racial group cue to our emotions questions to shift and or specify the lens through which the threat is evaluated. Psychology research on emotions suggests, "social categorization into a group changes emotional experience" (Mackie and Smith, 2017). Indeed, Ray et al (2008) found that when a group of students was categorized as Americans, respondents viewed Muslims as threatening and had negative emotions toward them.…”

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Race, crime, and emotions

Burge

Johnson

2018

Research & Politics

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Experimental research on racial attitudes examines how Whites’ stereotypes of Black Americans shape their attitudes about the death penalty, violent crime, and other punitive measures. Marginally discussed in the race-to-crime literature are Blacks’ perceptions of retribution and justice. We fill this void by using an original survey experiment of 900 Black Americans to examine how exposure to intra- and- intergroup violent crime shapes their policy attitudes and emotional reactions to crime. We find that Black Americans are more likely to support increased prison sentences for violent crimes when the perpetrator is White and the victim is Black, and reduced sentences for “Black-on-Black” crime. Our analyses further reveal that Black people express higher levels of anger when the victim is Black and the perpetrator is White; levels of shame and anger also increase in instances of Black-on-Black crime. Given current race relations in the United States, we conclude by speculating about how these emotional reactions might shape one’s willingness to participate in the political arena.

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Group-based emotion in group processes and intergroup relations

Cited by 49 publications

References 75 publications

Twenty years of group processes and intergroup relations research: A review of past progress and future prospects

Twenty years of group processes and intergroup relations research: A review of past progress and future prospects

Group‐based meta‐emotion and emotion responses to intergroup threat

Race, crime, and emotions

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