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To What Extent Defining a Group Predicates on Defining Other Groups?

Author(s) -

YiBin Chiu,

Weifeng Zhong

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

procedia - social and behavioral sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1877-0428

DOI - 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.324

Subject(s) - outgroup , incentive , competition (biology) , group (periodic table) , identity (music) , social psychology , collective identity , ingroups and outgroups , social identity theory , psychology , microeconomics , political science , social group , economics , law , aesthetics , ecology , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , politics , biology

We present a framework of group cooperation and competition in which agents are concerned not only about their material payoffs but also about their psychological payoffs, derived from working with others per se. In such a framework, a group's psychological preferences serve to enhance the group's material payoffs. We show that a small group has strong incentives to engage in outward-looking identity strengthening, such as stereotyping or airing grievances against a specific, large outgroup, and a large group has strong incentives to engage in inward-looking identity strengthening, such as self-stereotyping, glorifying its own history, etc

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