Testing The Limits of Tolerance : How Intergroup Anxiety Amplifies Negative and Offensive Responses to Out-Group-Initiated Contact  

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Fischer, Agneta H. ; Spears, Russell ; Zomeren, Martijn Van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 33 no. 12 (Dec. 2007), page 1686-1699.
Topik: limits; intergroup anxiety; threat; anger; norm transgression; intergroup contact
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Three studies examine the amplifying effects of intergroup anxiety on individuals' negative and offensive responses to out - group - initiated contact. Because intergroup anxiety typically results in avoidance of the initiation of intergroup contact, these studies explored how intergroup anxiety affected individuals' interpretation of and responses to out - group - initiated contact. The authors hypothesized that intergroup anxiety amplifies individuals' threat appraisal of out - group - initiated contact as well as their feelings of anger and offensive action tendencies toward the out - group. Results showed consistent support for these hypotheses by demonstrating that intergroup anxiety amplified individuals' threat appraisal (Studies 2 and 3), anger (Studies 1-3), and offensive action tendencies toward the out - group (Study 2). Anger consistently predicted offensive action tendencies (Studies 2 - 3). Thus, intergroup anxiety decreased individuals' limits of tolerance by increasing their threat appraisal of out - group - initiated contact. The results are discussed in relation to theories of threat, emotion, and tolerance.

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