Intergroup Solidarity in Peace Activism: The Potential for Success or Backlash

O'Brien, Thomas Christopher

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Intergroup Solidarity in Peace Activism: The Potential for Success or Backlash

dc.contributor.advisor	Linda R. Tropp
dc.contributor.advisor	Bernhard Leidner
dc.contributor.advisor	Brian Lickel
dc.contributor.advisor	David Mednicoff
dc.contributor.author	O'Brien, Thomas Christopher
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date	2023-09-23 16:32:22
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T16:18:23Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-26T16:18:23Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.date.submitted	February
dc.date.submitted	2017
dc.description.abstract	Integrating theory on distinct modes of social identity (Roccas, Sagiv, Schwartz, & Eidelson, 2008) with group-based emotion in protracted conflict (Halperin & Pilskin, 2015) and exposure to outgroups (Saguy & Halperin, 2014), this dissertation tests how Jewish Israelis respond when ingroup members and outgroup members work together to advocate for peaceful solutions to conflict (i.e., intergroup solidarity), and how glorification of one’s national group moderates these responses. Instructing participants to imagine a peace activist organization, Study 1 shows evidence that glorification of one’s ingroup predicts more anger, less hope, and less support for a political solution reflecting compromise. With a student sample, Study 2 shows that learning about an activist organization where both groups work together, relative to an organization where ingroup members work alone, increases support for allowing the organization to present on campus by reducing anger and increasing hope. Manipulating both group composition and the target of criticism, Study 3 shows that glorification becomes less predictive of negative responses to activism when the activist organization consists of only ingroup members, and when both ingroup members and outgroup members are criticized for their role in the conflict.
dc.description.degree	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.department	Psychology
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7275/9461500.0
dc.identifier.orcid	N/A
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/20158
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1916&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	Intergroup relations
dc.subject	intragroup relations
dc.subject	social identity
dc.subject	group-based emotion
dc.subject	Social Psychology
dc.title	Intergroup Solidarity in Peace Activism: The Potential for Success or Backlash
dc.type	openaccess
dc.type	dissertation
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