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Intragroup social influence and intergroup competition.
Full Abstract
Three experiments examined the role of intragroup social influence in intergroup competition. In the context of a mutual fate control situation, participants in Experiment 1 demonstrated more intergroup competition in the presence than in the absence of social support for shared self-interest. Experiment 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 Experiment 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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Author information
Author/s: Wildschut, Tim (T); Insko, Chester A (CA); Gaertner, Lowell (L);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, England. timw(-atsign-)soton.ac.uk
Grants: MH 53258 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 82 (issue 6) : pp 975-92
Dates: Created 2002/06/07; Completed 2002/12/18; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12051584, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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