TY  - UNPD
A1  - Bauer, Kevin
T1  - How did we do? The impact of relative performance feedback on intergroup hostilities
T2  - SAFE working paper series ; No. 281
N2  - Using a novel experimental design, I test how the exposure to information about a group’s relative performance causally affects the members’ level of identification and thereby their propensity to harm affiliates of comparison groups. I find that both, being informed about a high and poor relative performance of the ingroup similarly fosters identification. Stronger ingroup identification creates increased hostility against the group of comparison. In cases where participants learn about poor relative performance, there appears to be a direct level effect additionally elevating hostile discrimination. My findings shed light on a specific channel through which social media may contribute to intergroup fragmentation and polarization.
T3  - SAFE working paper - 281 
KW  - social identity
KW  - relative performance feedback
KW  - discrimination
KW  - outgroup derogation
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54608
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-546087
UR  - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3630105
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -