Bearing Witness
Social Support Responses to Gender Discrimination as a Function of the Emotions Conveyed by the Victim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kimberly Matheson (0000-0003-1150-3335, Carleton University), Katherine Raspopow (Carleton University), Hymie Anisman (Carleton University) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 148-159 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590 |
| Publisher | Hogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1027/1864-9335/a000093 |
| OpenAlex | W1985219074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
Recognizing discrimination does not necessarily translate into victim support. Willingness to provide support to a female victim of gender discrimination was hypothesized to vary as a function of whether the participant was male or female, along with the emotions conveyed by the victim (anger, shame, or no affect). Participants (N = 198) heard an audiotaped accounting of a woman's discriminatory (vs. nondiscriminatory) conflict. When the victim encountered discrimination, males saw her as less blameworthy when she expressed anger, but their support was enhanced when she expressed shame. Females' own anger predicted willingness to provide tangible support, although victim shame also elicited support. Thus, anger might motivate taking action, but its expression did not garner the support of others
Action (physics) · Affect (linguistics) · Anger · Developmental psychology · Shame · Witness · Communication · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Acute Threat to the Social Self
Emotional Consequences of Categorizing Victims of Negative Outgroup Behavior as Ingroup or Outgroup
The Past and the Pending
Unwanted Identities
Anger and shame elicited by discrimination
Women's reactions to ingroup members who protest discriminatory treatment
Women's emotional responses to the pervasiveness of gender discrimination
Perspective taking and prejudice reduction
Real Versus Imagined Gender Harassment
Relations among emotion, appraisal, and emotional action readiness
Coping with a threatened group identity
Excuse Me—What Did You Just Say
Culture and the self
When Do the Stigmatized Make Attributions to Discrimination Occurring to the Self and Others? The Roles of Self-Presentation and Need for Control
Perceiving pervasive discrimination among African Americans
If only I weren't" versus "If only I hadn't
Intergroup emotions
Reporting discrimination in public and private contexts
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! Explaining Collective Action Tendencies Through Group-Based Anger and Group Efficacy
Shamed into anger? The relation of shame and guilt to anger and self-reported aggression
The role of public exposure in moral and nonmoral shame and guilt
The structure of emotional expressivity
Target Article
The Denial of Personal Discrimination
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2019 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |