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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 12, 1683-1695 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205278260
© 2005 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Democracy Justifies the Means: Political Group Structure Moderates the Perceived Legitimacy of Intergroup Aggression

Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor

Christian Staerklé

University of Geneva, Switzerland

Marie-Aude Depuiset

Fabrizio Butera

Pierre Mendès France University, Grenoble, France

The present research tested the hypothesis that the political structure of conflicting groups moderates perceived legitimacy of intergroup aggression. In two experiments, participants read scenarios of fictitious summer camps in which members of one group aggressed members of another group. The political structure of both the perpetrator and the victim groups was described as either egalitarian (defined with democratic decision-making procedures) or hierarchical (authoritarian decision-making procedures). Results of both experiments showed that aggressions perpetrated by members of egalitarian groups at the expense of members of hierarchical groups were evaluated as less illegitimate than aggressions committed in the three remaining conditions. This effect is discussed as a function of the higher social value attributed to democratic groups.

Key Words: intergroup conflict • aggression • legitimacy • decisionmaking procedures • democracy


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