TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The groupy shift: conformity to liberal in-group norms as a group-based response to threatened personal control
JO  - Social cognition
A1  - Stollberg, Janine
A1  - Fritsche, Immo
A1  - Jonas, Eva
SP  - 374
EP  - 394
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
N2  - Testing a model of group-based control, we hypothesized that, as a response to threatened control, people strive for collective agency, leading to increased in-group norm conformity. To distinguish this mechanism from possible conservative shift we investigated liberal norms (i.e., change and anti-right-wing norms). In a field experiment (N = 82), salient personal control increased managers' commitment to organizational change under conditions of a pro-change in-group norm. Two laboratory experiments showed control threat to heighten students' support for educational innovations when salient in-group norms were supportive but not when they were ambivalent (N = 152), or when only out-group norms were supportive (N = 170). Applying this logic, perceived terrorist threat after a major attack predicted German students' intention to support anti-right-wing protests for those who perceived a strong anti-right-wing norm among students (N = 74). We discuss implications for both theory and societal polarization (instead of conservative shift) in times of threatened control.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0278-016X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/soco.2017.35.4.374
ID  - ref1
ER  -