Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them: The Ambivalent Effects of Existential Outgroup Threat on Helping Behavior.

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Johannes Berendt, Esther van Leeuwen, Sebastian Uhrich
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Abstract

Social comparison theories suggest that ingroups are strengthened whenever important outgroups are weakened (e.g., by losing status or power). It follows that ingroups have little reason to help outgroups facing an existential threat. We challenge this notion by showing that ingroups can also be weakened when relevant comparison outgroups are weakened, which can motivate ingroups to strategically offer help to ensure the outgroups' survival as a highly relevant comparison target. In three preregistered studies, we showed that an existential threat to an outgroup with high (vs. low) identity relevance affected strategic outgroup helping via two opposing mechanisms. The potential demise of a highly relevant outgroup increased participants' perceptions of ingroup identity threat, which was positively related to helping. At the same time, the outgroup's misery evoked schadenfreude, which was negatively related to helping. Our research exemplifies a group's secret desire for strong outgroups by underlining their importance for identity formation.

不能和他们一起生活,不能没有他们生活:存在的外部团体威胁对帮助行为的模糊影响。
社会比较理论表明,只要重要的外部群体被削弱(例如,失去地位或权力),内部群体就会得到加强。因此,内部群体几乎没有理由帮助面临生存威胁的外部群体。我们挑战了这一概念,表明当相关的比较外群体被削弱时,内群体也会被削弱,这可以激励内群体从战略上提供帮助,以确保外群体作为高度相关的比较目标的生存。在三项预先注册的研究中,我们发现,对具有高(与低)身份相关性的外群体的生存威胁通过两种相反的机制影响战略外群体的帮助。高度相关的外群体的潜在消亡增加了参与者对内群体身份威胁的感知,这与帮助呈正相关。与此同时,外部群体的痛苦引发了幸灾乐祸,这与帮助有负面关系。我们的研究通过强调群体对身份形成的重要性,证明了群体对强大外群体的隐秘渴望。
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期刊介绍: The Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin is the official journal for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. The journal is an international outlet for original empirical papers in all areas of personality and social psychology.
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