Group identification amplifies the effect of perceived deprivation on hostility

Evidence

There is evidence that feelings of deprivation often lead directly to prejudice (Olson & Hafer, 1996; Pettigrew et al., 1998). According to the “moderation hypothesis” outlined above, one could expect this effect to differ between high and low identifiers. Some empirical evidence for such moderation was found by Struch and Schwartz (1989) in an Israeli interreligious context. They observed that perceptions of conflicting goals (a variable related to deprivation) were correlated with aggressive intentions towards the outgroup, but that the correlation was noticeably stronger amongst those participants who identified strongly with their ingroup. A similar interaction between a group conflict variable – this time between the actual experience (or not) of a particular intergroup dispute – and identification was observed by Brown et al. (2001) in a study of British visitors to France. The effects of the conflict on negative evaluations of French people were more marked amongst more strongly identified respondents. These results suggest that identification might indeed qualify the effects of deprivation on prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 464 (#expands, via linked claim)

Contrary to earlier wisdom (e.g. Sumner, 1906), Allport suggested that, while the presence of another group, especially in conflictual situations, can increase ingroup cohesion, such cohesion need not lead to prejudice and outgroup hostilities (p. 42). In fact, he proposed that ingroup attachment and preference are psychologically more primary motives and that outgroup hostility usually stems from other sources, an argument that has been resurrected in recent years (Brewer, 1999). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 427 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Perceived group inequity motivates distress that drives restorative action — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 431; Both deprivation and relative gratification explain individual political violence; Ingroup identification can moderate or mediate how deprivation produces prejudice — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 464 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Ingroup identification can moderate or mediate how deprivation produces prejudice #expands (0.92) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 464
• Ingroup attachment does not necessarily produce outgroup hostility #complicates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 427