The development of subjective group dynamics: when in-group bias gets specific

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2003

Authors

Dominic Abrams (Author) Other; Adam Rutland (Author) Other; Lindsey Cameron (Author) Other; José M. Marques (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Vol. 21 No. 2

Pages: 155-176

ISSN: 0261-510X

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Psychology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-GBM

DOI: 10.1348/026151003765264020

Abstract (EN): Children aged 6-7 years and 10-11 years evaluated an in-group or out-group summer school and judged in-group or out-group members whose attitudes towards the summer schools were either normative or anti-normative. According to a subjective group dynamics model of intergroup processes, intergroup differentiation and intragroup differentiation co-occur to bolster the validity of in-group norms. The hypothesis that this process develops later than simple in-group bias was confirmed. All children expressed global in-group bias, but differential reactions to in-group and out-group deviants were stronger among older children. Moreover, the increasing relationship, with age, between in-group bias and evaluative preferences for in-group and out-group members that provide relative support to in-group norms, is mediated by the degree of perceptual differentiation among group members.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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No. of pages: 22