Ingroup

personality traits can be associated to either a collectivist or individualist culture. A collectivist culture values the goals and needs of a larger group, an ingroup in which one belongs, over the goals and needs of an individual. Adversely, an individualistic culture values the well-being and success of an individual over the goals and needs of an ingroup . Triandis found…

and a deep uncertainty renders the identity insecure (Mitzen 2006). In this regard, when an outgroup threatens an ingroup’s integrity and stability, an ontological insecurity happens. In such situation, ontological security will intensify levels of ingroup favoritism/bias and establish…

Such social identities comprise memberships in any psychologically relevant grouping with which an individual identifies, including kin, peers, profession, nation, and cultural identity (Galang, Quiñones, Adriano, Portillo, & Carvajal, 2015). The ingroup identification afforded by social identities then allow individuals to distinguish between people belonging to and excluded from the…

In this theory, individuals are motivated to preserve social inequities and see their ingroup’s as dominant over other groups. These individuals are likely to show patterns of favoritism towards their ingroup, and could also derogate and dehumanize members of outgroups. Many examples of the Social Dominance theory are seen towards the treatment of Jews. One example in the film is while the Nazis are shooting and killing all the Jews in the ghetto. During…

Throughout the years women have had their struggles of not being equal to men a lot of people like to think that gender is what identifies a person; but throughout research we have learned that gender is not defined only by genetics. It has been a struggle for women to make themselves a name in the sports industry. A lot of people tend to think that sports are only for men and a lot of times women sports do not get as much attention as male sports; but not only was this a thing back in the day…

According to Janis, pressure is when “Victims of groupthink apply direct pressure to any individual who momentarily expresses doubt about any of the groups shared illusions” (Janis). Pressure is the use of persuasion, influence, or intimidation by the ingroup to make someone, who expresses doubt about the ingroup’s shared beliefs, do something. In the beginning of The Crucible, Abigail Williams is questioned for the shenanigans in the forest with her cousin, Betty, and Tituba that took place in…

officer gets in a situation of trouble through work or their personal life he will count on his companions just like the average person, and they will rationalize the story that is given and make it seem as if he had to it and condoning his behavior. “Ingroup bias is the tendency to favor one 's own group over the outgroup, including devaluing the outgroup in some cases” (McFeeters 3); Cops will go as far to back each other up during small situation or a large situation such as testifying in…

there. Sutton, Jordan and Worthington (2014) looked at compassion in Pentecostals. In this study, “ingroups” were looked at. My research complimented this study in that before taking the Universal Compassion for Humanity test, participants were asked to rate their compassion on a scale of 1 to 7. By thinking abstractly about compassion, my study participants could have been thinking more about ingroups than outgroups. My research is most in line with Baston, Floyd, Meyer and Winner (1999). In…

Garden Foods Distributor is a beverage distributor located in Dearborn, MI, and distributes to gas stations, convenient stores, party stores, grocery stores, and supermarkets all across Southeast Michigan in Wayne County, Washtenaw County, and Oakland County. The company consists of, 25 sales people; one of which is the sales supervisor, 10 drivers, 10 warehouse employees; two of which are supervisors, three office secretaries, a part-time accountant, a bookkeeper, and three managers which…

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another (Myers & DeWall, 2014). It looks at human behavior as influenced by other people and the social context in which it occurs. Social psychologists manage the factors that lead an individual to behave in a certain way in the presence of others. They look at the conditions under which certain behaviors, actions and feelings occur. Social psychology looks at how these feelings, thoughts, beliefs,…