Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition

Wildschut, Tim, Insko, Chester A. and Gaertner, Lowell (2002) Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82 (6), 975-992. (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.975).

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Abstract

Three experiments examined the role of intragroup social influence in intergroup competition. In the context of a mutual fate control situation, participants in Exp 1 demonstrated more intergroup competition in the presence than in the absence of social support for shared self-interest. Exp 2 revealed that, in the context of a Prisoner's Dilemma Game, this social support effect was stronger when noncorrespondence of outcomes between the interacting groups was low than when it was high. Results from Exp 3 were consistent with the possibility that the effect of social support is attenuated when noncorrespondence of outcomes is high because under these circumstances intergroup competition is prescribed by a norm of group interest. The implications of these findings for understanding the antecedents of interindividual-intergroup discontinuity are discussed.

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