TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Me against we: In-group transgression, collective shame, and in-group-directed hostility
JO  - Cognition and emotion
A1  - Piff, Paul K.
A1  - Martinez, Andres G.
A1  - Keltner, Dacher
SP  - 634
EP  - 649
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
N2  - People can experience great distress when a group to which they belong (in-group) is perceived to have committed an immoral act. We hypothesised that people would direct hostility toward a transgressing in-group whose actions threaten their self-image and evoke collective shame. Consistent with this theorising, three studies found that reminders of in-group transgression provoked several expressions of in-group-directed hostility, including in-group-directed hostile emotion (Studies 1 and 2), in-group-directed derogation (Study 2), and in-group-directed punishment (Study 3). Across studies, collective shame-but not the related group-based emotion collective guilt-mediated the relationship between in-group transgression and in-group-directed hostility. Implications for group-based emotion, social identity, and group behaviour are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-9931
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.595394
ID  - ref1
ER  -