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Being Attuned to Intergroup Differences in Mergers: The Role of Aligned Leaders for Low-Status Groups

Jolanda Jetten

University of Exeter, j.jetten{at}exeter.ac.uk

Julie Duck

University of Queensland

Deborah J. Terry

University of Queensland

Anne O’Brien

University of Queensland

The present research focused on responses of low-status group members to a merger with a high-status group. A study was conducted (N = 153) in which the alignment of the leader for the merged group (ingroup vs. outgroup) and leader behavior (equality, outgroup favoritism, ingroup favoritism, complementarity) were manipulated. The authors predicted that the leader, by his or her behavior, would play an important role in defining the new relationship between premerger groups. Overall, low-status ingroup leaders were evaluated more positively than high-status outgroup leaders. Ingroup leaders were evaluated more favorably and were more likely to engender a common identity in the merged group than were outgroup leaders when leaders behaved in an ingroup-favoring or complementary fashion. In contrast, evaluations of ingroup and outgroup leaders did not differ when the leader stressed equality or was outgroup favoring. The findings demonstrate the important role leaders can play in accentuating or de-emphasizing premerger status differences.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 9, 1194-1201 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/01461672022812005
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