- Title
- Low status groups show in-group favoritism to compensate for their low status and to compete for higher status
- Creator
- Rubin, Mark; Badea, Constantina; Jetten, Jolanda
- Relation
- Australian Research Council.DP120100053
- Relation
- Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Vol. 17, Issue 5, p. 563-576
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430213514122
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- The present research investigated the intergroup allocation behavior of members of low-status groups. In two studies where status relations were either relatively illegitimate (Study 1, N = 139) or legitimate (Study 2, N = 114), undergraduate students completed a minimal group resource allocation task that took into account the intergroup status hierarchy. In both studies, members of low-status groups showed two forms of in-group favoritism. They selected resource allocation choices that (a) compensated for their low status and led to intergroup fairness (compensatory favoritism) and (b) competed with the out-group for status and led to positive distinctiveness for the in-group (competitive favoritism). These results suggest that members of low-status groups use in-group favoritism to make their group (a) as good as the high-status out-group and (b) better than the high-status out-group. The findings support the idea that in-group favoritism can serve different functions.
- Subject
- in-group favoritism; intergroup fairness; low-status groups; minimal group; social identity theory
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1294438
- Identifier
- uon:18796
- Identifier
- ISSN:1368-4302
- Language
- eng
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