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Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groupsColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, UK
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:234-49. 2007..Consistent with this finding, identification with experimentally created (Study 2b) and preexisting (Studies 4 and 5) in-groups predicted the ascription of morality, but not competence or sociability, to the in-group...
"A vengefulness of the impotent": the pain of in-group inferiority and schadenfreude toward successful out-groupsColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1383-96. 2008..As well as providing evidence for a specific form of prejudice grounded in group-based emotions, this research also revives displacement explanations of prejudice toward 3rd parties...- Group-level self-definition and self-investment: a hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identificationColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:144-65. 2008..Together, these studies illustrate the conceptual and empirical value of a hierarchical multicomponent model of in-group identification... - Anger and guilt about ingroup advantage explain the willingness for political actionColin Wayne Leach
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1232-45. 2006..Although guilt was associated with the abstract goal of systemic compensation, guilt did not explain willingness for political action. Results underline the importance of examining specific group-based emotions in intergroup relations... - Angry opposition to government redress: when the structurally advantaged perceive themselves as relatively deprivedColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 46:191-204. 2007..Theoretical and political implications are discussed... - Dejection at in-group defeat and schadenfreude toward second- and third-party out-groupsColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 1020, USA
Emotion 9:659-65. 2009..Schadenfreude toward the third party was associated with negative evaluation of the third party rather than positive evaluation of the in-group. As such schadenfreude toward the third party was more malicious... - Malicious pleasure: schadenfreude at the suffering of another groupColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 84:932-43. 2003..These results establish schadenfreude as an emotion that is moderated by the salient dimensions of particular intergroup relations... - White guilt and racial compensation: the benefits and limits of self-focusAarti Iyer
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:117-29. 2003..Our findings demonstrate the benefits and limits of group-based guilt as a basis of support for social equality and highlight the value of understanding the specific emotions elicited in intergroup contexts... - The person in political emotionColin Wayne Leach
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, U 1020, Storrs, CT 06269 1020, USA
J Pers 78:1827-59. 2010..I use my own research to illustrate these practices and to show how attention to macrolevel forces such as group membership, status, and structure may be integrated with attention to the individual person and meaningful aggregates... - Upward social comparison and self-concept: inspiration and inferiority among art students in an advanced programmeKathryn Burleson
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Br J Soc Psychol 44:109-23. 2005..Rather than suggesting that exposure to highly talented peers is necessarily unfavourable, results suggest that the interpretation of the comparisons made in situ determines the favourability of such exposure... - Group-based guilt as a predictor of commitment to apologyCraig McGarty
School of Psychology, The Australian National University, Australia
Br J Soc Psychol 44:659-80. 2005..The results of the two studies suggest that, just as individual emotions predict individual action tendencies, so group-based guilt predicts support for actions or decisions to be taken at the collective level... - Advantaged group's emotional reactions to intergroup inequality: the dynamics of pride, guilt, and sympathyNicole Syringa Harth
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 34:115-29. 2008..Guilt is a weak predictor of behavioral tendencies in all studies. This shows the specificity of emotions experienced about intergroup inequality... - Put your money where your mouth is! Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacyMartijn van Zomeren
Social Psychology Program, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:649-64. 2004..quot; The authors discuss how their dual pathway model integrates and extends elements of current approaches to collective action... - Exploring psychological mechanisms of collective action: does relevance of group identity influence how people cope with collective disadvantage?Martijn van Zomeren
Department of Social Psychology FPP, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Br J Soc Psychol 47:353-72. 2008..We discuss these results in terms of two distinct psychological mechanisms of collective action...