“Ingroup love“ and “outgroup hate“ in intergroup conflict between natural groups

Ori Weisel (Corresponding author), Robert Böhm

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Abstract

We report on two studies investigating the motivations (“ingroup love” and “outgroup hate”) underlying individual participation in intergroup conflict between natural groups (fans of football clubs, supporters of political parties), by employing the Intergroup Prisoner's Dilemma Maximizing-Difference (IPD-MD) game. In this game group members can contribute to the ingroup (at a personal cost) and benefit ingroup members with or without harming members of an outgroup. Additionally, we devised a novel version of the IPD-MD in which the choice is between benefiting ingroup members with or without helping members of the outgroup. Our results show an overall reluctance to display outgroup hate by actively harming outgroup members, except when the outgroup was morality-based. More enmity between groups induced more outgroup hate only when it was operationalized as refraining from help.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)110-120
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Experimental Social Psychology
Volume60
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 501021 Social psychology

Keywords

  • Intergroup conflict
  • Intragroup conflict
  • Ingroup love
  • Outgroup hate
  • Team games

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