When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?

Threats from both distinctiveness with the outgroup and prototypicality as an ingroup members were introduced, and the interacting effect of both threats along with ingroup identification on inter- and intra-group evaluations were investigated. Based on various social identity theories, it is predic...

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Main Authors: Sim, Lit Wee., Phua, Desiree Yi Ling., Low, Wan Ting.
Other Authors: Wan Ching
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16498
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Phua, Desiree Yi Ling.
Low, Wan Ting.
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description Threats from both distinctiveness with the outgroup and prototypicality as an ingroup members were introduced, and the interacting effect of both threats along with ingroup identification on inter- and intra-group evaluations were investigated. Based on various social identity theories, it is predicted that under the above mentioned two threats, high identifiers are likely to show accentuated ingroup bias, whereas low identifiers have the highest tendency to leave the group through and is expressed through the lowered exertion of ingroup bias. The results, though weak, revealed support for the predicted hypothesis.
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spelling ntu-10356/164982019-12-10T11:03:22Z When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage? Sim, Lit Wee. Phua, Desiree Yi Ling. Low, Wan Ting. Wan Ching School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology Threats from both distinctiveness with the outgroup and prototypicality as an ingroup members were introduced, and the interacting effect of both threats along with ingroup identification on inter- and intra-group evaluations were investigated. Based on various social identity theories, it is predicted that under the above mentioned two threats, high identifiers are likely to show accentuated ingroup bias, whereas low identifiers have the highest tendency to leave the group through and is expressed through the lowered exertion of ingroup bias. The results, though weak, revealed support for the predicted hypothesis. Bachelor of Arts 2009-05-26T08:26:49Z 2009-05-26T08:26:49Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16498 en Nanyang Technological University 44 p. application/pdf
spellingShingle DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology
Sim, Lit Wee.
Phua, Desiree Yi Ling.
Low, Wan Ting.
When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title_full When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title_fullStr When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title_full_unstemmed When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title_short When threatened by own-group and others, to please or disengage?
title_sort when threatened by own group and others to please or disengage
topic DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16498
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