Blinding Trust: The Effect of Perceived Group Victimhood on Intergroup Trust

Katie N. Rotella; Jennifer A. Richeson; Joan Y. Chiao; Meghan G. Bean

doi:10.1177/0146167212466114

Blinding Trust: The Effect of Perceived Group Victimhood on Intergroup Trust

Katie N. Rotella, Jennifer A. Richeson, Joan Y. Chiao, Meghan G. Bean

Psychology

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Four studies investigate how perceptions that one's social group has been victimized in society-that is, perceived group victimhood (PGV)-influence intergroup trust. Jewish and politically conservative participants played an economic trust game ostensibly with "partners" from their ingroup and/or a salient outgroup. Across studies, participants dispositionally or primed to be high in PGV revealed greater trust behavior with ingroup than outgroup partners. Control participants and those dispositionally low in PGV did not display such bias. Study 3 revealed, moreover, that high PGV enhanced ingroup trust even after an overt betrayal by an ingroup partner. Results were not explained by fluctuations in group identification, highlighting the novel, independent role of PGV in shaping an important aspect of intergroup relations-that is, trust. Implications of PGV for intergroup relations are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	115-127
Number of pages	13
Journal	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Volume	39
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212466114
State	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

ingroup favoritism
loyalty
perceived group victimhood
trust

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Social Psychology

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