PostDoctoral Research Fellowship: The Role of Group - Based Emotions in Middle-Class Afro-American Efforts to Address Their Obligation to the Black Community

这个NSF少数民族博士后奖学金研究项目在社会和行为科学研究基于群体的情绪，特别是内疚和羞耻的作用，在中产阶级非洲裔美国人努力解决他们的义务，黑人社区。过去对群体情绪的研究表明，集体内疚需要承认群体内对伤害另一群体负有一定程度的责任（Lickel，Schmader，Barquissau，2004; Swim米勒，1999）。这些情绪可能会导致人采取行动，努力纠正他们的错误行为（即，捐赠时间/金钱）。该项目提出，非裔美国人基于群体的情感也可以激励捐赠。这些群体为基础的情感和那些报告的主导群体成员之间的质的差异进行了讨论。在建立了适合评估中产阶级非洲裔美国人的群体情绪的量表后，接下来的研究将探讨未能履行道德义务的作用，这可能导致这些群体情绪和羞耻感，以及这些情绪和行动之间的关系，以帮助非洲裔美国人。在研究1和2中，中产阶级非洲裔美国人应该如何帮助与非洲裔美国人认为他们会帮助多少的信念之间的差异被预测会导致对自我的负面看法。非裔美国人谁相信他们的群体是不满足的义务，预计将导致基于群体的内疚和羞耻。研究3将评估信息类型与情绪之间的关系。据预测，那些支持非裔美国人社区有道德义务帮助非裔美国人的人的情绪最强烈。非裔美国人的中心群体身份越重要，他们就越应该感到有义务帮助其他非裔美国人。这对非洲裔美国中产阶级来说尤其如此。将在研究4中研究这种关系。研究6和7将研究基于群体的内疚的后果。

This NSF Minority Post-Doctoral Fellowship Research project in the Social and Behavioral Sciences examines the role of group-based emotions, specifically guilt and shame, in middle class African Americans efforts to address their obligation to the Black community. Past research on group-based emotions has demonstrated that collective guilt requires acknowledgment of a degree of ingroup responsibility for harm against the othergroup (Lickel, Schmader, Barquissau, 2004; Swim & Miller, 1999). These emotions maylead the person to take action in an effort to correct their wrongdoings (i.e., donatetime/money). This project proposes that group-based emotions of African Americans can also motivate donations. Qualitative differences between these group-based emotions and those reported by dominant group members are discussed. After establishing scales appropriate for assessing middle class African American's group-based emotions, the studies that follow will examine the role of failure to live up to moral obligation which may result in these group-based emotions and shame and the relation between these emotions and actions to help African Americans. In Study 1 and 2, discrepancies between how middle class African Americans should help versus beliefs on how much African Americans perceive that they would help are predicted to lead to negative views of the self will be assessed. African Americans who believe their group is not satisfying obligations are predicted to lead to group-based guilt and shame. Study 3 will assess the relation between type of information and emotions. Emotions are predicted to be strongest for those who endorse moral obligation of the African American community to help African Americans. The more central group identity is to African Americans, the more they should feel obligated to help other African Americans. This may be particularly true for members of the African American middle class. This relationship will be investigated in Study 4. Studies 6 and 7 will examine the consequences of group based guilt.