The Influence of Accountability on Individual Mobility: The Permeability Paradox Examined

Weerd, Bram, B. de (2022) The Influence of Accountability on Individual Mobility: The Permeability Paradox Examined. Master thesis, Psychology.

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Abstract

Moral concerns of group loyalty can arise when low-status ingroup members are presented with the opportunity at individual mobility (also referred to as the “permeability paradox”). This study explored if and how accountability to ingroup and targeted outgroup audiences affected the engagement in individual mobility behaviours under these circumstances and conditions. Based on the strategic side of the SIDE model, it was expected that low-status ingroup members strategically performed their identity and group loyalty depending on in- and outgroup presence, with this relation being moderated by ingroup identification. In a sample of 149 psychology students, it was found that identity performance, on the whole, differed between the four experimentally induced conditions of (anticipated) in- and outgroup presence (absent vs. present) on nine loyalty-related constructs. Present findings suggest that participants strategically responded based on group accountability and ingroup identification, the implications of which are discussed. Keywords: social identity, identity threat, ingroup disloyalty, group influence, social norms

Item Type:	Thesis (Master)
Supervisor name:	Spears, R.
Degree programme:	Psychology
Differentiation route:	Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology]
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2022 13:24
Last Modified:	23 Aug 2022 13:24
URI:	http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1325

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