Doğan, Gönül ORCID: 0000-0002-1075-1102, Glowacki, Luke ORCID: 0000-0002-8314-5904 and Rusch, Hannes ORCID: 0000-0002-9260-4025 (2022). Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups. Philosophical transactions / The Royal Society. Series B, Biological sciences, 377 (1851). LONDON: ROYAL SOC. ISSN 1471-2970 ; 0080-4622

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Abstract

Humans often favour ingroup members over others, a bias that drives discrimination and intergroup conflicts. Hostile relations between groups and homogeneity within groups may affect such ingroup bias. In an experiment with members of three natural groups in Ethiopia, we vary intergroup relations (neutral versus enmity) and exploit the natural variation in the homogeneity of groups (homogeneous versus heterogeneous) to identify their effect on in- and outgroup concerns. We find that ingroup bias largely manifests as positive concern for ingroup members combined with no concern for outgroup members. Enmity has no effect on ingroup bias, whereas ingroup concern is amplified in homogeneous groups. Group homogeneity, thus, is the primary driver of concerns for others in our study's context. Our results are relevant to understanding the consequences of exclusionary group identities.This article is part of the theme issue 'Intergroup conflict across taxa'.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Doğan, GönülUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-1075-1102UNSPECIFIED
Glowacki, LukeUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-8314-5904UNSPECIFIED
Rusch, HannesUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-9260-4025UNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-677413
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0419
Journal or Publication Title: Philosophical transactions / The Royal Society. Series B, Biological sciences
Volume: 377
Number: 1851
Date: 2022
Publisher: ROYAL SOC
Place of Publication: LONDON
ISSN: 1471-2970 ; 0080-4622
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Corporate Development > Professorship for Corporate Development & Corporate Responsibility
Subjects: Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
SOCIAL IDENTITY; IN-GROUP; GROUP MEMBERSHIP; COOPERATION; CONFLICT; IMPACT; NORM; ALTRUISM; IDENTIFICATION; BEHAVIORMultiple languages
BiologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67741

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