Group emotions and collective action

Question 1

Which people experience group based emotions (cognitive anxiety, blood pressure)

Answer 1

Increased with high social identification than compared to low SI
Increases closer to event

Question 2

Collective guilt minimal group study

Answer 2

Level of social identification positively related to collective guilt

Question 3

Collective guilt and intergroup comparisons

Answer 3

Collective guilt ‘out-group advantage’ < ‘both groups equal’, < ‘in-group advantaged’
In-group privilege higher than out-group disadvantage

Question 4

Predicting racist attitudes

Answer 4

Higher levels of collective guilt = more favourable attitudes/compensation toward Indigenous Australians
No effect on own willingness to act

Question 5

Salience of in group as the victim

Answer 5

When reminded of the in group victim (holocaust), the collective guilt went surprisingly down.

Question 6

Collective action frames

Answer 6

Sets of action-oriented beliefs
A sense of injustice
An element of identity
A factor of agency

Question 7

Justice and protest via relative deprivation

Answer 7

Personal relative deprivation predicts stress but not protesting
Collective relative deprivation predicted protest oriented but not stress

Question 8

Collective efficacy

Answer 8

predicts support only for high social identifiers

Question 9

Aspects of consistency

Answer 9

Diachronic - consistency over time
Synchronic - consistency within the minority

Question 10

Expand moral boundaries

Answer 10

Compassion for others
Fears of compassion
Moral expansiveness