Extremism Leads to Ostracism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew H Hales (0000-0001-8045-5475, University of Virginia), Kimberly D Williams (0000-0001-7159-1854, Purdue University West Lafayette), Kipling D Williams |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 149-156 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/a000406 |
| OpenAlex | W2993112350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 28 |
Ostracism has been shown to increase openness to extreme ideologies and groups. We investigated the consequences of this openness-to-extremity from the perspective of potential ostracizers. Does openness-to-extremity increase one's prospects of being ostracized by others who are not affiliated with the extreme group? Participants rated willingness to ostracize 40 targets who belong to activist groups that vary in the type of goals/cause they support (prosocial vs. antisocial), and the extremity of their actions (moderate vs. extreme). Mixed-effects modeling showed that people are more willing to ostracize targets whose group engages in extreme actions. This effect was unexpectedly stronger for groups pursuing prosocial causes. It appears openness-to-extremity entails interpersonal cost, and could increase reliance on the extreme group for social connection
Helping behavior · Ideology · Interpersonal communication · Openness to experience · Ostracism · Perspective (graphical) · Prosocial behavior · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Statistical power and optimal design in experiments in which samples of participants respond to samples of stimuli.
Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
When Do We Ostracize
The Quest for Significance
Ostracism promotes a terroristic mindset
Why Terrorism Does Not Work
Marginalized Individuals and Extremism
Who’s to blame? Dissimilarity as a cue in moral judgments of observed ostracism episodes
To the fringe and back
The Catastrophic Link Between the Importance and Extremity of Political Attitudes
Attitude strength and resistance processes
Who gets ostracized? A personality perspective on risk and protective factors of ostracism
Biased assimilation and attitude polarization
Bad is Stronger than Good
Revisiting Schachter's Research on Rejection, Deviance, and Communication (1951)
Deviation, rejection, and communication
Evolutionary origins of stigmatization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |