Group anger drives confrontation while fear drives avoidance

Evidence

The link between intergroup threat and emotion is even more explicit in other recent theories. Individuals appraise environmental threats to self, resulting in predictable emotions and action tendencies. Similarly, intergroup emotions follow from appraisal of threats to the ingroup, based in the perceiver’s social identity. For example, intergroup anger and fear represent distinct emotions, respectively triggering inclination to act against or move away from the outgroup, as a function of ingroup strength (Smith & Mackie, ch. 22 this volume). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 339

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 339
• XREF: connects to: Different threat types trigger distinct emotions that shape reactions — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 66; Conventions gain force because unmet expectations trigger anger regardless of material stakes — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 127; Negative outgroup contact raises anxiety, which breeds hostility and contact avoidance. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 47 (+3 more)