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The Roles of Ingroup Identification and Outgroup Entitativity in Intergroup Retribution

Douglas M. Stenstrom

University of Southern California, dstenstrom{at}email.com

Brian Lickel

University of Southern California

Thomas F. Denson

University of New South Wales

Norman Miller

University of Southern California

A new aspect of intergroup conflict was investigated— vicarious retribution—in which neither the agent of retribution nor the target of retribution are directly involved in the initial intergroup provocation. The underlying processes involved in vicarious intergroup retribution were tested correlationally (Study 1) and experimentally (Study 2). Both ingroup identification and outgroup entitativity predict the degree of vicarious retribution. In both studies, there was evidence of motivated cognition, specifically that highly identified individuals perceived the outgroup as higher in entitativity than individuals low in identification. Structural equation modeling demonstrated that part of the effect of identification on retribution against the outgroup was mediated through perceptions of entitativity.

Key Words: aggression • identification • entitativity • retribution • motivated cognition

This version was published on November 1, 2008

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 11, 1570-1582 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208322999
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