Collaborative Research: Intergroup Emotions Theory: New Strategies for Prejudice Reduction through Categorization and Personal Contact

合作研究：群体间情绪理论：通过分类和个人接触减少偏见的新策略

• 批准号: 0719924
• 负责人: Diane Mackie
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0719924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Intergroup; Emotions; Theory

Prejudice and discrimination by members of one group against members of another group is ubiquitous. This collaborative research project aims to better understand the conditions under which emotions felt toward other groups can exacerbate or reduce prejudice and discrimination. Research has already shown that antipathy and intolerance between groups is often driven by specific emotions (such as anger and resentment, fear and anxiety, sympathy, or guilt) that are aroused when people encounter members of other groups. The two sets of studies in this proposal focus on two important antecedents of specific emotions directed at other groups. In the first set of studies changes in people's perceived group membership is examined. The impact of these changes in categorization on emotions is assessed as well as the potential effects of an individual's emotional state on the categorization process itself. The second set of studies examines personal contact with an individual member of another group as a way of understanding the specific emotions that contribute to a positive outcome, and how these emotions translate into overt behavior in encounters between groups. Taken together, findings from this research will show how preconditions influence emotions which then translate into prejudice and behavior, and how this sequence might be altered or short-circuited. By showing when and how emotions toward other groups can exacerbate or reduce prejudice and discrimination, these research results may illuminate ways of reducing these important social problems.

一个群体的成员对另一个群体的成员的压制和歧视是普遍存在的。这个合作研究项目旨在更好地了解对其他群体的情绪会加剧或减少偏见和歧视的条件。研究已经表明，群体之间的反感和不容忍往往是由特定的情绪（如愤怒和怨恨，恐惧和焦虑，同情或内疚）引起的，当人们遇到其他群体的成员时。这两组研究的重点是针对其他群体的特定情绪的两个重要前因。在第一组研究中，人们感知的群体成员关系的变化进行了检查。这些变化对情绪的分类的影响进行评估，以及个人的情绪状态对分类过程本身的潜在影响。第二组研究考察了与另一个群体的个体成员的个人接触，作为理解有助于积极结果的特定情绪的一种方式，以及这些情绪如何在群体之间的遭遇中转化为明显的行为。总的来说，这项研究的结果将显示先决条件如何影响情绪，然后转化为偏见和行为，以及这种序列如何被改变或短路。通过展示对其他群体的情绪何时以及如何加剧或减少偏见和歧视，这些研究结果可能会阐明减少这些重要社会问题的方法。