Intergroup relations and the attribution of emotions: Control over memory for secondary emotions associated with the ingroup and outgroup

Ruth Gaunt; Jacques Philippe Leyens; Stéphanie Demoulin

doi:10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00014-8

Intergroup relations and the attribution of emotions: Control over memory for secondary emotions associated with the ingroup and outgroup

Ruth Gaunt
, Jacques Philippe Leyens
, Stéphanie Demoulin

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Université catholique de Louvain

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This study tested the hypothesis that people perceive their ingroup as experiencing more uniquely human secondary emotions than the outgroup. Jacoby's process-dissociation procedure was used to measure participants' controlled recognition memory for materials that associated the ingroup or outgroup with secondary or primary emotions. Conscious memory was better for associations between the outgroup and secondary emotions than for associations between the ingroup and secondary emotions. No such difference was found for primary emotions. These results suggest that people attribute more humanity to the ingroup than to the outgroup.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	508-514
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Volume	38
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00014-8
State	Published - Sep 2002

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This research was supported by Grant ARC 96/01.198 of the Communauté française de Belgique. We thank Magdalena Mozdzierz for her assistance in collecting data. We are grateful to Olivier Corneille for his invaluable comments and thoughtful advice on various stages of this project.

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This research was supported by Grant ARC 96/01.198 of the Communauté française de Belgique. We thank Magdalena Mozdzierz for her assistance in collecting data. We are grateful to Olivier Corneille for his invaluable comments and thoughtful advice on various stages of this project.

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