An affective route to outgroup derogation [Elektronische Ressource] : the role of group based anger as exemplified by the triggered displaced aggression paradigm / von Kerstin Schütte

Fr. Schütte

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• Psychologie
• Soziologie

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• Publié par: friedrich-schiller-universitat_jena
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: English

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An affective route to outgroup derogation.
The role of group-based anger as exemplified by the
triggered displaced aggression paradigm



Dissertation
zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades

doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.)







vorgelegt dem Rat der Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften
der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
von Dipl.-Psych. Kerstin Schütte
geboren am 01.12.1975 in Lübbecke




















Gutachter

1. Junior-Prof. PD Dr. Thomas Kessler, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
2. Prof. Dr. Amélie Mummendey, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Tag des Kolloquiums: 14.12.2006ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many people contributed in various ways to the completion of this thesis. First of all, I
want to thank my supervisor Thomas Kessler and also Amélie Mummendey for putting me in
the position to acquire a new, much valued group membership: experimental social
psychologist. You have introduced me to a captivating field of research. Thank you, Thomas,
for all your suggestions and advice. Amélie, thank you also for making Jena such a
stimulating place by putting so much energy in creating this exceptional research
environment. Particularly, I also want to express my gratitude towards former and current
colleagues in the “nucleus”, the Humboldtstraße 26. Thanks to my former colleagues in the
research project "Motivational basis of the positive-negative asymmetry of social
discrimination″, Stéphanie Demoulin and Hans-Peter Erb, for your support during the early
stages of this enterprise, for your willingness to engage in those many enjoyable discussions.
Fritz Funke was always a patient reference person and Angela Opitz spent with me invaluable
breaks. Nina Hansen and Maya Machunsky, thank you for reading parts of this thesis and
your insightful comments. Furthermore, I thankfully acknowledge funding of the research
project by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft that made the present thesis possible.
My family, thanks for your confidence and for unconditionally backing me all the
way although you may have wished I had chosen a different life. Marko, thank you for
tolerating the many hours I devoted to this thesis instead of spending them with you and for
going with me through all this.
Of course, this list of contributors and contributions is not exhaustive, but I trust you
know who you are and how thankful I am.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Tables..................................................................................................................................... VII
Figures......................................................................................................................................IX
1 Introduction.........................................................................................................................1
2 Theoretical background ......................................................................................................4
2.1 The social identity approach......................................................................................5
2.1.1 Ingroup favoritism versus outgroup derogation ............................................7
2.1.2 Outgroup derogation and positive distinctiveness.........................................9
2.2 Intergroup emotion theory.......................................................................................10
2.2.1 Empirical results on group-based emotions ................................................12
2.2.2 Relations between affect and cognition.......................................................13
2.3 Triggered displaced aggression...............................................................................14
2.3.1 Processes underlying triggered displaced aggression..................................16
2.3.2 Triviality of the triggering provocation.......................................................18
2.3.3 Triggered displaced aggression and intergroup relations............................19
2.3.4 Affective mediation of the relationship between trigger and displaced
aggression ....................................................................................................21
3 Hypotheses........................................................................................................................22
3.1 Contrast hypothesis of triggered displaced aggression ...........................................22
3.2 Mediated moderation hypothesis.............................................................................24
3.2.1 Emotion-specificity hypothesis ...................................................................25
3.2.2 Identification is a prerequisite for group-based phenomena .......................25
3.3 Overview of the present studies ..............................................................................26
IV
4 Empirical evidence from a questionnaire study................................................................27
4.1 Method.....................................................................................................................27
4.2 Results and discussion.............................................................................................31
4.3 Summary .................................................................................................................43
5 Measurement of affect ......................................................................................................46
5.1 Prototypical emotional episodes versus core affect ................................................46
5.2 Self-report versus other affect measures .................................................................48
5.3 Verbal versus non-verbal affect measures...............................................................50
5.4 Pretest: German core affect scale ............................................................................51
5.5 Pretest: Pictorial core affect scale ...........................................................................53
6 Empirical evidence from a questionnaire study employing a core affect scale................56
6.1 Method.....................................................................................................................57
6.2 Results and discussion.............................................................................................61
6.3 Summary .................................................................................................................72
7 Empirical evidence from minimal group research............................................................75
7.1 Study 3.....................................................................................................................75
7.1.1 Method.........................................................................................................76
7.1.2 Results and discussion.................................................................................81
7.1.3 Summary......................................................................................................93
7.2 Study 4.....................................................................................................................94
7.2.1 Method.........................................................................................................95
7.2.2 Results and discussion.................................................................................99
7.2.3 Summary....................................................................................................117
V
8 General discussion ..........................................................................................................120
8.1 Overview of the presented studies.........................................................................120
8.2 Integration and implications of the presented studies ...........................................121
8.3 Future research objectives.....................................................................................127
8.4 Final conclusions...................................................................................................129
References..............................................................................................................................130
Summary................................................................................................................................144
Zusammenfassung..................................................................................................................147
Appendix................................................................................................................................150

VI
TABLES
Table 1. Means and standard deviations for provocation-elicited emotions and
identification with Europe separately for both provocation conditions (Study 1)...................32
Table 2. Means and standard deviations for the dependent measures separately
for all four experimental conditions (Study 1)..................................................................