Scientific article
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Threatening Intergroup Relationships: Personal Versus Group-Related Moderators of Conformity as a Function of the Level of Self-Categorization

Published inSocial psychology, vol. 42, no. 4, p. 279-291
Publication date2011
Abstract

Five experiments investigated among nonsmokers with initial antismoking attitudes conformity to a norm of intergroup tolerance and nondiscrimination (i.e., a counterattitudinal norm) as a function of the personal versus categorical referent used in intergroup comparisons (self-categorization level), the motivation to respond without prejudice, and the perceived ingroup threat. Results showed that conformity (i.e., a reduction of support for antismoking actions) was moderated by the ingroup threat in the category-referent condition (i.e., conformity was observed only when the perceived threat was low), but by the internal motivation to respond without prejudice in the personal-referent condition. These findings suggest the existence of different moderators of conformity as a function of the self-categorization level.

Keywords
  • Social influence
  • Self-categorization
  • Ingroup threat
  • Tolerance norm
  • Antismoking attitude
  • Internal motivation
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FALOMIR PICHASTOR, Juan Manuel, MUGNY, Gabriel. Threatening Intergroup Relationships: Personal Versus Group-Related Moderators of Conformity as a Function of the Level of Self-Categorization. In: Social psychology, 2011, vol. 42, n° 4, p. 279–291. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000082
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