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Women's reactions to ingroup members who protest discriminatory treatment: The importance of beliefs about inequality and response appropriateness
Author(s) -
Garcia Donna M.,
Schmitt Michael T.,
Branscombe Nyla R.,
Ellemers Naomi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.644
Subject(s) - ingroups and outgroups , psychology , social psychology , anger , promotion (chess) , complaint , prejudice (legal term) , inequality , perception , in group favoritism , social identity theory , social group , political science , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience , politics
Our goal was to identify factors that shape women's responses to ingroup members who protest gender discrimination. We predicted and found that women who perceived gender discrimination as pervasive regarded a protest response as being more appropriate than a no protest response and expressed greater liking and less anger towards a female lawyer who protested rather than did not protest an unfair promotion decision. Further, beliefs about the appropriateness of the response to discrimination contributed to evaluations of the protesting lawyer. Perceptions that the complaint was an appropriate response to the promotion decision led to more positive evaluations of an ingroup discrimination protester. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.