Can emotions be truly group level? Evidence regarding four conceptual criteria.
Indiana University Bloomington · University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
Recent advances in understanding prejudice and intergroup behavior have made clear that emotions help explain people's reactions to social groups and their members. Intergroup emotions theory (D. M. Mackie, T. Devos, & E. R. Smith, 2000; E. R. Smith, 1993) holds that intergroup emotions are experienced by individuals when they identify with a social group, making the group part of the psychological self. What differentiates such group-level emotions from emotions that occur purely at the individual level? The authors argue that 4 key criteria define group-level emotions: Group emotions are distinct from the same person's individual-level emotions, depend on the person's degree of group identification, are…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 62.50
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- 100%
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3Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Prejudice (legal term)
- Ingroups and outgroups
- Group (periodic table)
- Group identification
- Social identity theory
- Social perception
- Reduced inequalities