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- Title
Arousal, Processing, and Risk Taking: Consequences of Intergroup Anger.
- Authors
Rydell, Robert J.; Mackie, Diane M.; Maitner, Angela T.; Claypool, Heather M.; Ryan, Melissa J.; Smith, Eliot R.
- Abstract
Intergroup emotions theory (IET) posits that when social categorization is salient, individuals feel the same emotions as others who share their group membership. Extensive research supporting this proposition has relied heavily on self-reports of group-based emotions. In three experiments, the authors provide converging evidence that group-based anger has subtle and less explicitly controlled consequences for information processing, using measures that do not rely on self-reported emotional experience. Specifically, the authors show that intergroup anger involves arousal (Experiment 1), reduces systematic processing of persuasive messages (Experiment 2), is moderated by group identification (Experiment 2, posttest), and compared to intergroup fear, increases risk taking (Experiment 3). These findings provide converging evidence that consistent with IET, emotions triggered by social categorization have psychologically consequential effects and are not evident solely in self-reports.
- Subjects
AFFECT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONS; TEMPERAMENT; SELF-control; EMOTIONAL intelligence; AFFECTIVE education; SATISFACTION; FRUSTRATION
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1141
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167208319694