Defensive helping
Threat to group identity, ingroup identification, status stability, and common group identity as determinants of intergroup help-giving
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6202756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arie Nadler (0000-0002-7411-2887, Tel Aviv University), Gal Harpaz-Gorodeisky, Gal Harpaz (0000-0002-6117-1538, Open University of Israel), Yael Ben-David (Tel Aviv University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 823-834 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0015968 |
| PMID | 19857004 |
| OpenAlex | W1995101392 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 34 |
On the basis of development of the concept of "defensive helping," the authors demonstrated that high ingroup identifiers thwart a threat to group identity through defensive help-giving (i.e., by extending help to an outgroup member whose achievements jeopardize their status). Participants were 255 Israeli high school students (130 boys and 125 girls) ages 16-18. The phenomenon of defensive helping was demonstrated in a minimal group (Study 1) and real-group (Study 2) experiment. Study 3, which examined real groups, supported the extension of the phenomenon of defensive helping to relations between high- and low-status groups, showing that members of a high-status group who perceive status relations with the low-status outgroup as unstable will protect the ingroup's identity by providing dependency-oriented help to the low-status outgroup. Priming for common ingroup identity reversed this pattern, with participants electing to offer autonomy-oriented rather than defensive help. Theoretical and applied implications of these findings are discussed with respect to social change, paternalism, and helping between nations
Autonomy · Developmental psychology · Identity (music) · In-group favoritism · Ingroups and outgroups · Outgroup · Prosocial behavior · Social group · Social identity theory · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
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| Citations per year | 1,19 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2026 (58) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |