Group Inclusiveness, Group Identification, and Intergroup Attributional Bias

Wei-hua, MA; Karasawa, Minoru

doi:10.2117/psysoc.2006.278

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“…Study 1 used the intergroup Attributional Tendency Questionnaire, adapted and simplified from Hewstone and Ward (1985) and Ma and Karasawa (2006) to fit the current study while keeping the original questionnaire framework.…”

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The reducing effect of positive imagined intergroup contact on intergroup attributional bias

Wei-hua

Feng

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J Applied Social Pyschol

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Currently, the Han and Uygur ethnicities in Xinjiang, China are generally in a peaceful state; however, there are also disagreements and conflicts. Through three studies, this article explores intergroup attributional bias (in‐group favoring and out‐group derogating pattern of attribution) between the Hans and Uygurs in Xinjiang, China, and the reducing effect of positive imagined intergroup contact on intergroup attributional bias. Using high school students from Han and Uygur as participants, Study 1 investigated participants’ attributional patterns for in‐group and out‐group members presenting desirable or undesirable behaviors in daily situations. The results revealed that both Hans and Uygurs demonstrate an in‐group favoring pattern of attribution, but not an out‐group derogating pattern. Study 2 added a brief positive imagined intergroup contact (experimental group) or a brief positive imagination of an outdoor scene (control group) before participants completed the same questionnaire as in Study 1 and found a weaker intergroup attributional bias in the experimental group. In Study 3, Han students who had a positive imagined contact with a Uygur demonstrated a closer distance and reported more positive attitudes toward Uygurs than Han students who had imagined contact with a nonspecific stranger. Studies 2 and 3 together indicated a reducing effect of imagined contact on intergroup attributional bias through improvement of intergroup attitudes. The conclusion of this research is particularly meaningful for the Hans and Uygurs, as it implies that properly implemented positive imagined intergroup contacts might be a useful remedy for reducing potential conflicts.

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“…Members with strong identification allocate more resources to their ingroup (Sidanius et al, 1994), cultivate advantage for their ingroup (Scheepers et al, 2006), and evaluate their ingroup members more positively (Ma & Karasawa, 2006). Ingroup bias refers to a general tendency to evaluate one's ingroup and its members more favorably than outgroups and their members (Tajfel, 1981, pp.…”

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Group norms moderate the effect of identification on ingroup bias

Çoksan

Cingöz-Ulu

2021

Curr Psychol

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The social identity tradition has not reached a consensus regarding the question of whether identifying with an ingroup directly leads to ingroup bias, or whether this association may be moderated by group norms. One previous study (Jetten, Spears, & Manstead, 1997) showed that an ingroup norm of fairness as opposed to differentiation seems to moderate this link between identification and ingroup bias. The present research aims to examine the extent to which real-life group members (Kurds and Turks) with a history of conflict engage in ingroup bias as a function of their level of identification when group norms prescribe favoritism or equality. In Study 1, Kurdish and Turkish participants report their ingroup norm (egalitarianism or favoritism) and allocate a fixed amount of funds between Kurds and Turks in a hypothetical situation. The results show a significant interaction between social identification and group norm on ingroup bias. Accordingly, ingroup bias increases with the strength of identification when the norm is favoritism; however, there is no relationship when the norm is egalitarianism. Study 2 manipulates the ingroup norm for Kurdish and Turkish participants in the same hypothetical context. This time, the interaction is marginally significant but in a similar direction, where stronger identification leads to higher ingroup bias in the favoritism norm condition, yet this effect disappears in the egalitarianism norm condition. These findings extend the literature on the role of norms in intergroup relations, emphasizing the important role of egalitarian norms in reducing ingroup bias even in real-life conflict-ridden contexts.

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Rethinking Conflict and Collective Memory: The Case of Nanking

Schwartz

2017

Oxford Handbooks Online

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This article examines the politics of collective memory and attribution theory by studying expert and popular beliefs in Japan about the 1937–1938 Nanking Massacre. Memory, when conceived as a product of political conflict, assumes pluralistic and centralized forms. Multiple memories emerge out of a context of cross-cutting interests, coalitions, power networks, and enterprises, as seen in the fate of artistic and presidential reputations, Holocaust commemoration, place-naming, monument-making, and the organization of museums. After discussing the assumptions underlying the politics of memory and attribution theory, the article considers two theories in light of the Nanking debates: the first relates history and memory to power struggles, whereas the second subsumes these struggles under conflicting causal attributions. It also looks at three carrier groups that participate in the Nanking memory war, and particularly in debates over Japan’s moral responsibility for crimes committed in Nanking: maximalists, revisionists, and centrists.

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Group Inclusiveness, Group Identification, and Intergroup Attributional Bias

Cited by 5 publications

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The reducing effect of positive imagined intergroup contact on intergroup attributional bias

The reducing effect of positive imagined intergroup contact on intergroup attributional bias

Group norms moderate the effect of identification on ingroup bias

Rethinking Conflict and Collective Memory: The Case of Nanking

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