United as one? Personal and social identity threats differentially predict cooperation and prejudice toward minorities
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Global threats are often identified as triggers of intergroup conflict. However, personal vs. social identity threats can differently shape intergroup relations – enhancing or decreasing cooperation and prejudice. We tested the idea that appraisals of different types of threat (to personal vs. social identity motives) shape specific representations of intergroup relations (as one-group recategorization or separate-group coalition), which have opposing implications for modern prejudice toward ethnic minorities. In four studies (N = 2,772) performed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we found evidence that personal threats were negatively associated with modern prejudice and this relation was mediated by preferences for separate group-representations, whereas social identity threats were positively associated with modern prejudice and mediated by preferences for one group representations.
Source: Self and Identity
Institutions: Jagiellonian University, Universidad de Granada, Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento, Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, University of Warsaw, Sai University, University of Crete, Universidad de La Rioja, Panteion University, University of St Andrews
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Award: G8096858271
OpenAlex ID: W4394602829