The infamous among us: Enhanced reputational memory for uncooperative ingroup members
The infamous among us: Enhanced reputational memory for uncooperative ingroup members
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DOI:
10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.001
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发表时间:
2016-12-01
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Kessler, Thomas
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作者:
Hechler, Stefanie;Neyer, Franz J.;Kessler, Thomas
People remember uncooperative individuals better than cooperative ones. We hypothesize that this is particularly true when uncooperative individuals belong to one's ingroup, as their behavior violates positive expectations. Two studies examined the effect of minimal group categorization on reputational memory of the social behavior of particular ingroup and outgroup members. We manipulated uncooperative behavior as the unfair sharing of resources with ingroup members (Study 1), or as descriptions of cheating (Study 2). Participants evaluated several uncooperative and cooperative (and neutral) ingroup and outgroup members. In a surprise memory test, they had to recognize target faces and recall their behavior. We disentangled face recognition, reputational memory, and guessing biases with multinomial models of source monitoring. The results show enhanced reputational memory for uncooperative ingroup members, but not uncooperative outgroup members. In contrast, guessing behavior indicated that participants assumed more ingroup cooperation than outgroup cooperation. Our findings integrate prior research on memory for uncooperative person behavior and person memory in group contexts. We suggest that the ability to remember the uncooperative amidst the supposedly cooperative ingroup could stabilize intragroup cooperation. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.