Flade, Felicitas, Klar, Yechiel and Imhoff, Roland (2019). Unite against: A common threat invokes spontaneous decategorization between social categories. J. Exp. Soc. Psychol., 85. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0465

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Abstract

A frequent rhetoric in the political arena calls members of larger groups like nations to lay aside all dividing differences and unite in face of a common threat. In the present research we sought to test whether such a unifying effect of external threat already manifests in such basic cognitive processes as automatic categorization even for such strong schisms as the ones between black and white Americans or Israeli Jews and Arabs. In Studies 1 & 2 (N = 183/144, USA), we established the decategorization effect in the context of black and white US Americans. In Study 3, we showed the effect again in a German lab for the gender category (N = 101). In Study 4 (N = 168, Israel), we transferred the effect to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and teased apart the separate effects of intergroup threat, common goal and common threat, and category membership of participants. In summary, a common enemy leads to the decategorization of social groups already at an early automatic stage.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Flade, FelicitasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Klar, YechielUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Imhoff, RolandUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-128621
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103890
Journal or Publication Title: J. Exp. Soc. Psychol.
Volume: 85
Date: 2019
Publisher: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication: SAN DIEGO
ISSN: 1096-0465
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
INTERGROUP THREAT; COOPERATION; ATTITUDES; SELF; FRUSTRATION; REDUCTION; BEHAVIOR; ISRAELI; STRESS; RACEMultiple languages
Psychology, SocialMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/12862

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