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Competitive Victimhood in Response to Accusations of Ingroup Harmdoing
dc.contributor.advisor | Landau, Mark J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sullivan, Daniel Luc | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-03T02:19:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-01-03T02:19:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-06-03 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10977 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6971 | |
dc.description.abstract | Individuals are motivated to maintain a positive moral evaluation of social groups to which they belong. Accusations of unjust harmdoing on the part of the ingroup threaten the group's moral identity. One strategy for restoring ingroup moral identity after such a threat is competitive victimhood: claiming the ingroup has suffered as much or more than the harmed outgroup and other relevant groups. Two studies tested this process. In Study 1, male participants were more likely to claim that men are discriminated against compared to women after their group was accused of harming women. In Study 2, undergraduates were more likely to claim that their group is discriminated against compared to other campus groups after undergraduates were accused of harming university staff. Competitive victimhood did not occur when outgroup victimization was framed as the fault of the outgroup itself (Study 1) or a group other than the ingroup (Study 2). | |
dc.format.extent | 54 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Social psychology | |
dc.subject | Collective victimhood | |
dc.subject | Competitive victimhood | |
dc.subject | Intergroup relations | |
dc.subject | Social identity theory | |
dc.title | Competitive Victimhood in Response to Accusations of Ingroup Harmdoing | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Branscombe, Nyla R. | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Cudd, Ann E | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Psychology | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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