| Popis: |
People are naturally part of many groups (e.g., gender, race, political affiliation, occupation) but not everyone has the same mental representation of how their personal group memberships overlap and are similar. Some people have a simple social identity in which they perceive more overlap of their identities and therefore have smaller conceptions of their ingroup. Others have a more complex social identity wherein they perceive less overlap and therefore have a larger ingroup. Research has demonstrated that people who feel on the outskirts of their group (peripheral group members) are more likely than prototypical group members to derogate deviant ingroup. Potentially because deviant ingroup tend to lessen the distinctiveness between the ingroup and outgroup. The current study plans to use 500 Democrats to examine how social identity complexity might mitigate the negative response that peripheral group members have toward deviant ingroup members. |
