Ghosts of the Past and Dreams of the Future: The Impact of Temporal Focus on Responses to Contextual Ingroup Devaluation  

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Rabinovich, Anna ; Morton, Thomas A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 38 no. 3 (Mar. 2012), page 397-410.
Topik: Temporal Focus; In-group Devaluation; Group Identification; Self-esteem
Fulltext: PSPB_38_03_397.pdf (1.07MB)

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The authors investigated the impact of temporal focus on group members’ responses to contextual in-group devaluation. Four experimental studies demonstrated that following an induction of negative in-group evaluation, participants primed with a past temporal focus reported behavioral intentions more consistent with this negative appraisal than participants primed with a future temporal focus. This effect was apparent only when a negative (but not a positive) evaluation was induced, and only among highly identified group members. Importantly, the interplay between temporal focus and group identification on relevant intentions was mediated by individual self-esteem, suggesting that focus on the future may be conducive to separating negative in-group appraisals from individual self-evaluations. Taken together, the findings suggest that high identifiers’ responses to in-group evaluations may be predicated on their temporal focus: A focus on the past may lock such individuals within their group’s history, whereas a vision of the future may open up opportunities for change.

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