Negative Affect and Political Sensitivity in Crossed Categorization: Self-Reports versus EMG.

Autor: Ensari, Nurcan, Kenworthy, Jared B., Urban, Lynn, Canales, Carrie J., Vasquez, Eduardo, Kim, Deanah, Miller, Norman
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Zdroj: Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; Jan2004, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p55-74, 20p
Abstrakt: We experimentally examined the effects of negative integral affect on preferences among the double in-group (ii), crossed (io and oi), and double out-group (oo) targets of the crossed categorization paradigm. We used insults from members of politically sensitive vs. non-sensitive out-group categories of a crossed target (Oi) to induce affect. Dependent measures included self-reports and a psycho-physiological measure of affect (facial electromyography, EMG). Under no insult, participants conformed to social desirability pressure and favorably evaluated targets with a politically sensitive out-group membership, whereas facial EMG measures indicated greater negativity toward those same targets. Negativity of self-report and facial EMG measures converged, however, when members of a politically sensitive out-group category had provided hostility-justifying insults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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