CAREER: SBP: Relations within Diverse Coalitions Allied toward Social Change

美国的人口越来越多样化。美国人属于许多不同的社会群体，其中许多人为实现共同的目标而努力。个体可以拥有多种不同的社会身份，同时认同多个社会群体。这些群体身份在社会生活中发挥着重要作用。它们有助于满足归属感，帮助人们围绕共同目标组织和激励行动。例如，来自许多不同群体的人都对减少歧视和社会不平等感兴趣。尽管他们有着共同的目标，但来自不同群体的人在思考和寻求解决方案方面可能有所不同。关于属于多个群体如何影响人们如何应对社会挑战，如不平等，以及他们可能想采取行动，以减少它知之甚少。这个项目研究了来自不同背景的人如何寻求追求一个共同的目标，确定潜在的障碍，以建立有效的多样化联盟，并测试一种方法来干预，以促进顺利的群体功能。研究的具体背景是社会不平等。了解社会身份如何影响人们在感知不平等时的反应，对于理解来自不同背景的个人试图共同努力解决此类紧迫的社会问题时的群体功能至关重要。该项目旨在深入了解联盟如何运作，并设法促进成员不同的团体之间有效建立联盟，该项目力求收集数据，查明不同联盟伙伴在首选行动方面的差异以及差异背后的动机。研究的主要目的是：1）确定在不平等的背景下，不同社会群体的成员支持什么类型的行动，2）确定表面上结盟的个人之间偏好行动差异的动机过程，3）考虑个人的多重身份如何影响这些动机，以及随后减少不平等的偏好行动，以及4）测试缓和基于身份的动机和考虑多重身份是否减少了不一致并增强了多样化联盟之间的凝聚力。几个实验，包括最后的翻译实验研究，检查这些研究问题的背景下，几种形式的社会不平等。更广泛的目标是更好地了解具有相同目标的不同群体内的潜在冲突，并确定减少冲突和支持群体凝聚力的方法。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为是值得支持的。

The population of the United States is increasingly diverse. Americans belong to many different social groups, many of which strive toward achieving common goals. Individuals can hold many different social identities and identify with multiple social groups at the same time. These group identities serve an important role in social life. They help to satisfy a sense of belonging and help people to organize and motivate action around common goals. For example, people from many different groups share a strong interest in reducing discrimination and societal inequality. Despite their shared goals, people from different groups may differ in how they think about and pursue solutions. Little is known about how belonging to multiple groups influences how people respond to social challenges such as inequality and how they might want to act to reduce it. This project examines how people from diverse backgrounds seek to pursue a common goal, identifies potential roadblocks to building effective diverse coalitions, and tests for a method to intervene to facilitate smooth group functioning. The specific context of the research is social inequality. Understanding how social identities may affect how people react when perceiving inequality is vital for understanding group functioning when individuals from diverse backgrounds try to work together to tackle such pressing societal issues. The project aims to offer insight into how coalitions may function and find ways to facilitate effective coalition-building among groups with diverse members.This project seeks to collect data on and identify discrepancies in the preferred action of different coalition partners as well as the motivations underlying the discrepancies. The primary aims of the research are to 1) identify what types of action are supported by members of different social groups in the context of inequality, 2) identify the motivational processes that underlie discrepancies in preferred action among ostensibly-allied individuals, 3) consider how individuals’ multiple identities influence these motives and, subsequently, preferred action to reduce inequality, and 4) test whether assuaging identity-based motives and considering multiple identities reduces misalignment and enhance cohesion among a diverse coalition. Several experiments, including a final translational experimental study, examine these research questions in the context of several forms of social inequality. The broader objectives are to better understand potential conflicts within a diverse group of individuals who share the same goal and to identify methods to reduce conflict and support group cohesion. The project contributes to the science of broadening participation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.