Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence

Cikara, Mina

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.12.007

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“…In other studies, the anterior insula has also shown greater activation when participants viewed ingroup members on a sports team receiving pain than when they viewed outgroup members experiencing the same [46]. Interestingly, when participants viewed outgroup members as the recipients of pain, they showed more activation in the ventral striatum, a brain region associated with pleasure, and which has been found to be activated during bouts of intergroup schadenfreude [25,26,29].…”

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The role of empathy in intergroup relations

Vanman

2016

Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…Similar to the way empathy may lead to the reduction of intergroup conflict, the counter-empathy response of intergroup schadenfreude may promote harm to the outgroup precisely because of the pleasure gained from seeing the outgroup suffer [29].…”

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The role of empathy in intergroup relations

Vanman

2016

Current Opinion in Psychology

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“…Furthermore, Studies 2b and 3 support the idea that threat and explicit competition amongst social groups leads social dominants to further increase the gap between 'us' and 'them' by experiencing relatively greater counter-empathy towards out-groups. Expressing counter-empathy, and schadenfreude specifically, may motivate out-group harm (Cikara, 2015). In other words, feeling pleasure at out-group pain might make it more acceptable, even gratifying, to inflict out-group harm.…”

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Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets

Hudson

Cikara

Sidanius

2019

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Highlights• SDO predicted decreased empathy and increased counter-empathy in general.• Higher SDO scores were associated with greater intergroup empathy bias.• SDO scores also correlated with greater counter-empathy bias when groups competed. SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION AND EMPATHY 3 AbstractThe capacity to empathize with others facilitates prosocial behavior. People's willingness and capacity to empathize, however, is often contingent upon the target's group membership -people are less empathic towards those they categorize as out-group members. In competitive or threatening intergroup contexts, people may even feel pleasure (counter-empathy) in response to out-group members' misfortunes. Social dominance orientation (SDO), or the extent to which people prefer and promote groupbased inequalities, is an ideological variable that is associated with a competitive view of the world, increased prejudicial attitudes, and decreased empathy. Thus, higher levels of SDO should be associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy in general, but especially towards those whose subjugation maintains group inequalities.Across three studies we show that among White individuals, higher SDO levels are associated with less empathy, and more counter-empathy in response to others' good and bad fortunes. More importantly, these reductions in empathy and increases in schadenfreude as a function of SDO were significantly stronger for Asian and Black targets than for in-group White targets when group boundaries were made salient prior to the empathy ratings. Finally, in a fourth study we show that this phenomenon is not dependent upon a history of status differences: higher SDO scores were associated with decreased empathy and increased counter-empathy for competitive out-group (relative to in-group) targets in a novel group setting. We discuss implications of these effects for hierarchy maintenance.

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“…In turn, Palestinian militant groups began a wave of suicide bombings within Israel (Pressman ). Interventions that decrease the propensity of groups to engage in collective blame (e.g., Cikara ; Bruneau, Kteily, and Falk ) or to view the out‐group as a homogeneous entity (e.g., Er‐Rafiy and Brauer ) could help take the wind out of the spoiler’s sails.…”

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Psychological Barriers to Resolving Intergroup Conflict: An Extensive Review and Consolidation of the Literature

Friend¹,

Malhotra²

2019

Negotiation Journal

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This article reviews over sixty years of research on psychological barriers to intergroup conflict resolution and finds that scholars have identified eighty nominally different barriers that create or exacerbate intergroup conflict. In order to create a tractable list that would be more helpful to future scholars and practitioners, we consolidate this vast literature (e.g., by eliminating substantive and conceptual redundancies) to produce a list of twenty‐six “unique” psychological barriers. We further organize this inventory of barriers with a framework that distinguishes between “cognitive,” “affective,” and “motivated” psychological barriers. To better understand the literature ecosystem of research on psychological barriers, we employ a data visualization tool to illustrate the extent to which each of the twenty‐six unique barriers has been studied conjointly with every other barrier in the articles we reviewed. We then shift our attention to the work of scholars who have attempted, experimentally, to attenuate psychological barriers in negotiation and conflict settings, and identify five primary methods for doing so. Finally, we discuss the implications of our review for future work in this field.

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Intergroup Schadenfreude: motivating participation in collective violence

Cited by 88 publications

References 47 publications

The role of empathy in intergroup relations

The role of empathy in intergroup relations

Preference for hierarchy is associated with reduced empathy and increased counter-empathy towards others, especially out-group targets

Psychological Barriers to Resolving Intergroup Conflict: An Extensive Review and Consolidation of the Literature

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