Peters, Franciscus J.S. (2022) The Effect of Outgroup Gratitude on Outgroup Helping. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Gratitude is a positive emotion that is closely related to relationship formation and helping behavior. However, gratitude has not been studied at the intergroup level. Since other closely related positive emotions have led to beneficial intergroup outcomes in conflict settings, it is likely that gratitude oriented towards the outgroup will also show a similar relationship. Therefore, in this study we investigated whether outgroup gratitude could lead to outgroup helping, a beneficial intergroup outcome. The main reason for this prediction was that outgroup gratitude could induce cognitive reappraisal due to positive attention being shown towards the outgroup which would eventually lead to an increasing in outgroup helping. We also predicted outgroup threat to mediate the relationship. We used Democrats (N = 225) as the ingroup and Republicans as the outgroup with a between-subject design. Results showed that there was no impact of outgroup gratitude on outgroup helping but did reduce outgroup threat. However, outgroup threat did not mediate the relationship between outgroup gratitude and outgroup helping. We can conclude that, despite the failure of outgroup gratitude to produce outgroup helping, the lowering of outgroup threat shows the relevance of outgroup gratitude as an important emotions in hostile intergroup contexts.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Figueiredo Leal, A.L. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2022 07:11 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2022 07:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/649 |
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