The Test of Attenuation Effect of Consensus Information on In-group Attributional Favoritsm

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10.2991/assehr.k.210617.098How to use a DOI?

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Consensus Information, Intergroup Attributional Bias, Rational Attribution, Group Salience, Self-categorization

Abstract

Intergroup Attributional Bias is an in-group-favoring and outgroup-derogating phenomenon existing in attribution. It is one kind of representation of irrational attribution arisen from the self-enhancement motivation in group level. This study discussed the influence of consensus information on Intergroup Attributional Bias. In Pre-Experiments, the subjects read and imaged some situations that contained good or bad behavior or outcome of the members of their in-group or out-group, and relevant consensus information which extents were manipulated, and made attributions in 4 causal dimensions. The results showed that high/low consensus was attributed to external environmental cause/internal dispositional cause respectively, and Intergroup Attributional Bias disappeared. The Formal Experiments discussed whether consensus information is given or not influence in-group-favoring Attributional tendency. The results indicated that in-group-favoring Attributional tendency was showed vividly when consensus information wasn’t given. Nevertheless, in the condition that consensus information was given, as the results of rational attribution, high/low consensus was attributed to external environmental cause/internal dispositional cause, and in-group-favoring Attributional tendency disappeared. In two experiments of this study, consensus information showed significant interference effect for Intergroup Attributional Bias. It is the main contribution of this study. The results of this study are discussed from the viewpoints of rational attribution and self-categorization.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhaoyuan Liu
AU  - Weijun Ma
AU  - Yating Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/20
TI  - The Test of Attenuation Effect of Consensus Information on In-group Attributional Favoritsm
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Humanities Education (ICMHHE 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 367
EP  - 373
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210617.098
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210617.098
ID  - Liu2021
ER  -