Prosocial consequences of third-party anger

Doorn, Janne van; Zeelenberg, Marcel; Breugelmans, Seger M.; Berger, Sebastian; Okimoto, Tyler G.

doi:10.1007/s11238-017-9652-6

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“…Discrimination can lead to negative psychological outcomes and it is common for marginalized individuals to feel anger in response to learning about societal inequality (Montada & Schneider, 1989). However, for some, that anger can be an important motivator of critical action (Thomas, Mavor, & McGarty, 2012;Van Doorn, Zeelenberg, & Breugelmans, 2014;Wray-Lake et al, 2018). Although numerous studies have linked racial discrimination with devastating outcomes (e.g., Brondolo, Gallo, & Myers, 2009), our findings call upon scholars to further consider how socialization messages from parents and schools can transmute anger or other negative emotions into critical agency without harm to overall well-being.…”

Section: Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Profiles of ethnic‐racial socialization from family, school, neighborhood, and the Internet: Relations to adolescent outcomes

Byrd

Ahn

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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Given that ecological models of development highlight the interacting influences of multiple environments, further research is needed that explores ethnic‐racial socialization from multiple contexts. The current study explores how families, schools, neighborhoods, and the Internet jointly impact academic outcomes, critical consciousness, and psychological well‐being in adolescents, both through socialization messages and experiences with racial discrimination. The research questions were: (a) What profiles of multiple contexts of socialization exist? and (b) How are the different profiles associated with academic outcomes, critical consciousness, and psychological well‐being? The sample consisted of 1,084 U.S. adolescents aged 13–17 (M = 14.99, SD = 1.37; 49% girls) from four ethnic‐racial groups: 25.6% Asian American, 26.3% Black/African American, 25.3% Latinx, and 22.9% White. The participants completed online surveys of socialization and discrimination from four contexts and three types of outcomes: academic outcomes, critical consciousness, and well‐being. A latent profile analysis revealed three profiles: Average, High Discrimination, and Positive School. The Positive School class had the most positive academic outcomes and well‐being. The High Discrimination class reported the highest critical consciousness. Their academic outcomes and well‐being were similar to the Average group. The findings support complexity in perceptions of socialization from different contexts and the associations of socialization with youth outcomes.

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Profiles of ethnic‐racial socialization from family, school, neighborhood, and the Internet: Relations to adolescent outcomes

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Ahn

2020

Journal Community Psychology

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“…For example, in studies by Lotz et al (2011) and Van Doorn et al (2018), people observed a game played by two players (an allocator and a recipient) in which a certain amount of money needed to be divided. If allocators decided to allocate only a small amount of money to the other player, the third parties more often chose to spend their own money to compensate victims for their losses instead of punishing allocators for making the unfair distribution.…”

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An exploration of third parties’ preference for compensation over punishment: six experimental demonstrations

2018

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Research suggests that to restore equity, third parties prefer compensation of a victim over the punishment of a perpetrator. It remains unclear, however, whether this preference for compensation is stable or specific to certain situations. In six experimental studies, we find that adjustments in the characteristics of the situation or in the available behavioral options hardly modify the preference of compensation over punishment. This preference for compensation was found even in cases where punishment might refrain a perpetrator from acting unfairly again in the future, and even when punishment has a greater impact in restoring equity than compensation does. Thus, the preference of compensation over punishment appears to be quite robust. Implications and ideas for future research are discussed.

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“…Overall, similar to personal anger, empathic anger is likely to direct action towards retaliation against a transgressor, but importantly also towards the promotion of the interests of the victim of the observed harm (Frijda, 1988). Consistently, several studies found that, in addition to a wish to punish transgressors, feelings of empathic anger were also strongly associated with a desire to help victims (Gummerum, Van Dillen, Van Dijk, & L opez-P erez, 2016;van Doorn, Zeelenberg, Breugelmans, Berger, & Okimoto, 2018;Vitaglione & Barnett, 2003). In line with these findings, Kish-Gephart, Detert, Treviño, and Edmondson (2009) suggested empathic anger as a possible way to overcome fear-based silence when individuals observe mistreatment of others (Kirrane, O'Shea, Buckley, Grazi, & Prout, 2017).…”

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Gender, leadership, and the display of empathic anger

Keck

2019

J Occupat & Organ Psyc

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Three experimental studies with different participant pools examined the effects of displays of empathic anger – anger that is caused by witnessing or learning of harm done to another person – on perceptions of men and women in leadership positions. In contrast to prior work, which focused on expressions of anger regarding personal failure and found double standards that favour men, the results in this study show that displays of empathic anger were significantly more beneficial for female leaders. In particular, female leaders who expressed anger about a harm done to a subordinate were perceived as possessing more agentic and communal characteristics, and as being more effective in their position, than their male counterparts. Moreover, the results showed that this effect was driven by observers’ tendency to attribute empathic anger expressed by female compared with male leaders more strongly to internal reasons like the leader's personality. Consistent with these findings, the different perceptions of male and female leaders were no longer present when attributions for the displays of empathic anger were clearly internal. Practitioner points To be effective leaders, female managers need to show qualities like determination and confidence, but unlike male leaders, they often find it difficult to do so without simultaneously been judged as lacking important attributes like warmth and kindness. The results in this study suggest that female leaders can overcome this problem by expressing anger about a harm done to others, which causes observes to judge them even more positively than male leaders who engage in the same behaviour. Overall, whereas female leaders should generally avoid expressing anger about a personal harm for which they are judged very negatively, they should not be reluctant to display anger about harm done to other members of organization when they have the opportunity to do so.

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Prosocial consequences of third-party anger

Cited by 29 publications

References 47 publications

Profiles of ethnic‐racial socialization from family, school, neighborhood, and the Internet: Relations to adolescent outcomes

Profiles of ethnic‐racial socialization from family, school, neighborhood, and the Internet: Relations to adolescent outcomes

An exploration of third parties’ preference for compensation over punishment: six experimental demonstrations

Gender, leadership, and the display of empathic anger

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