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The Other Side of We: When Outgroup Members Express Common Identity

Ángel Gómez

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, agomez{at}psi.uned.es

John F. Dovidio

Yale University

Carmen Huici

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Samuel L. Gaertner

University of Delaware

Isabel Cuadrado

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Previous research on the common ingroup identity model has focused on how one's representations of members of the ingroup and outgroup influence intergroup attitudes. Two studies reported here investigated how learning how others, ingroup or outgroup members, conceive of the groups within a superordinate category affects intergroup bias and willingness to engage in intergroup contact. Across both studies, high school students who learned that other ingroup members categorized students at both schools within the common identity of "students" showed less intergroup bias in evaluations and greater willingness for contact. However, consistent with the hypothesized effects of identity threat, when participants read that outgroup members saw the groups within the superordinate category, they exhibited a relatively negative orientation, except when ingroup members also endorsed a superordinate identity (Study 1). This result occurred even when the relative status of the groups was manipulated (Study 2).

Key Words: common ingroup identity • intergroup relations • metaperceptions • prejudice • social identity

This version was published on December 1, 2008

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 12, 1613-1626 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208323600
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