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I Belong, therefore, I Exist: Ingroup Identification, Ingroup Entitativity, and Ingroup Bias

The Ohio State University, e.castano{at}ukc.ac.uk

Vincent Yzerbyt

Univesité Catholique de Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve

Maria-Paola Paladino

Università degli studi di Trento

Simona Sacchi

The Ohio State University

Merging insights from the intergroup relations literature and terror management theory, the authors conducted an experiment in which they assessed the impact of death-related thoughts on a series of ingroup measures. Participants in the mortality-salience condition displayed stronger ingroup identification, perceived greater ingroup entitativity, and scored higher on ingroup bias measures. Also, perceived ingroup entitativity as well as ingroup identification mediated the effect of the mortality salience manipulation on ingroup bias. The findings are discussed in relation to theories of intergroup relations and terror management theory. A new perspective on the function of group belonging also is presented.

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