The effect of group categorization on injustice standards, harm judgements, collective guilt and motivated behavior

Ethics;Responsibility;Intergroup relations;Group identity;Human behavior;Guilt

Herlache, Anne D.Miron, Anca ;

University of Wisconsin

关键词: Ethics;    Responsibility;    Intergroup relations;    Group identity;    Human behavior;    Guilt;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: University of Wisconsin

【 摘 要 】

This study focuses on whether or not participants;; group categorization would impact the standards they used to judge future harm to an outgroup. In this case, harm isreferring to current paper waste in university computer labs and the financial and stressrelatedconsequences this carries for future students. Also of interest is whether or not the participants;; judgements of harm would impact collective guilt (the guilt felt on behalf of the ingroup) and if collective guilt would impact willingness to help the outgroup (i.e.engage in conservation of resources-proenvironmental actions). Participants in theinclusive condition (who saw themselves as part of a group including future students)were expected to set lower standards of harm (require less evidence to believe harm hadbeen done), judge more harm had been done, feel more collective guilt, and be morewilling to engage in proenvironmental actions, as compared to participants in theexclusive condition (current students only). The manipulation alone was not sufficient toimpact the predicted variables; however, the interaction of the group categorizationmanipulation and level of group identification did differentially impact collective guiltand willingness to engage in proenvironmental actions in an unexpected way. Participantswho were highly identified with their group and were in the exclusive condition felt morecollective guilt and were more willing to engage in proenvironmental actions thanparticipants who were less identified with their group. Implications of the findings arediscussed in terms of changing proenvironmental behavior.