Social Regulation Model of Ingroup Favoritism

社会群体中重要社会群体的解散或排斥会增加个人焦虑，烦躁，抑郁的风险，在极端情况下，自杀。目前的建议确定并探讨了一种社会进程，据推测，这一进程可以促进和维持群体内关系，从而最大限度地减少人们遭受排斥或群体内解体的不良后果的可能性。特别是，计划中的研究开发和测试的社会监管模型（SRM）的内集团偏袒。 SRM基于这样的假设，即社会群体对人类生存至关重要，产生于多种因素，并涉及群体内关系，有时会引起利益冲突，威胁到群体的稳定和个人在群体中的成员资格。该模型认为，积极的内群体信念和行为可以在没有外群体的情况下发生，并在一定程度上调节和维持和谐的内群体关系。在群体中，偏好被视为群体生活的一种适应性特征，因为它促进了信任、互惠和对群体内成员之间合作互动的期望。当人们对他们共同的群体成员身份有了更高的认识时，这种群体内偏爱的社会调节成分就会出现。由于SRM认识到群体形成是一个多方面决定的现象，对共享群体成员资格的认识可以由多种因素触发，包括但不限于，存在上下文相关的外群体和内群体成员之间的相互依赖。换句话说，SRM断言，内群体偏好具有调节内群体成员之间的社会关系的群体内成分，并且不限于外群体突出的情况。拟议的实验测试SRM的断言，积极的行为对内组的一部分，社会调节，保持和谐的组内关系。特别是实验测试，如果增加共享组成员的意识，在没有一个外群，增加（a）内群成员之间的信任，（2）关注内群成员的福利，和（c）通过促进宽恕来减少内群冲突。.

Dissolution of or exclusion from important social groups places in social groups places individuals at increased risk of anxiety, dysphoria, depression, and in extreme cases, suicide. The current proposal identified and explores a social process that is hypothesized to foster and sustain intragroup relations, and, consequently minimizes the likelihood that persons suffer the ill consequences of exclusion or ingroup- dissolution. In particular, the planned research develops and tests the Social Regulation Model (SRM) of ingroup favoritism. The SRM is grounded in the assumptions that social groups are vital to human survival, arise from multiple factors, and involve intragroup relations that, at times, give rise to conflicts of interest that threaten the stability of the group and an individual's membership in the group. This model asserts that positive ingroup beliefs and behaviors can occur in the absence of an outgroup and function, in part, to regulate and maintain harmonious intragroup relations. In group favoritism is viewed as an adaptive characteristic of group life in that it promotes trust, reciprocity, and expectations of cooperative interactions among ingroup members. This social regulation component of ingroup favoritism is hypothesized to arise when persons experience a heightened awareness of their shared group membership. Because the SRM recognizes that group formation is a multiply determined phenomenon, awareness of shared group membership can be triggered by multiple factors including, but not limited to, the presence of a contextually relevant outgroup and interdependence among ingroup members. In other words, the SRM asserts that ingroup favoritism has an intragroup component that regulates social relations among ingroup members and is not limited to a situation in which an outgroup is salient. The proposed experiments tests the SRM's assertion that positive behaviors towards the ingroup are part of a social-regulation that maintains harmonious intragroup relations. In particular the experiments test if increasing awareness of shared group membership, in the absence of an outgroup, increases (a) trust among ingroup members, (2) concern for the welfare of ingroup members, and (c) de-escalates intragroup conflict by promoting forgiveness. .