Ethnocentrism and the value of a human life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204836 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felicia Pratto (0000-0002-4547-2197, University of Connecticut), Demis E Glasford (0000-0002-8446-0148, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1411-1428 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| 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/a0012636 |
| PMID | 19025292 |
| OpenAlex | W2073430812 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 32 |
Drawing on theories of intergroup prejudice and decision making, the authors examined how much participants valued lives of conationals and enemy civilians. Using decisions made under risk, Experiment 1 showed that Americans valued Iraqi and American lives equally when outcomes for those nations did not compete but valued American lives more under outcome competition. Experiments 2 and 3 extended this finding by illustrating ethnocentric valuation even when large numbers of lives were at stake: The number of lives at stake mattered less for enemy civilians than it did for conational combatants. Experiment 4 provided additional evidence of this ethnocentric indifference to magnitude, regardless of combatant status of the conationals' lives. In all experiments, individual difference measures associated with prejudice (e.g., group identification and prejudice, empathy, social dominance orientation, social attitudes) corresponded to ethnocentric valuation measured in decisions. Results demonstrate that categorization, competitive context, and individual propensities for prejudice influence how much one values lives
Authoritarianism · Categorization · Empathy · Epistemology · Ethnocentrism · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term) · Social dominance orientation · Valuation (finance) · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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Social Conflict, Harmony, and Integration
Dying and Killing for One’s Group
Identification With All Humanity as a Moral Concept and Psychological Construct
When Suffering Begets Suffering
Identification with All Humanity
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The Influence of Culture and Intercultural Contact on Neo-Racism and Ethnocentrism
The Morality of War
The Effect of War Commemorations on Support for Diplomacy
Meat and interpersonal motives
Bias Within Because of Threat From Outside
If they can’t change, why support change? Implicit theories about groups, social dominance orientation and political identity
Les apports et les limites de l’empathie dans la décision morale
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success
The case for the international governance of immigration
Emotion regulation and prejudice reduction following acute terrorist events
Proud to support social equality
Encouraging majority support for immigrant access to health services
Refining the association between intergroup contact and intergroup forgiveness in Northern Ireland
Intergroup bias toward “Group X”
From Group Identity to Political Cohesion and Commitment
The nature of social dominance orientation
All humanity is my ingroup
Social Dominance Orientation
Global Human Identification and Citizenship
When extraordinary injustice leads to ordinary response
An analysis of five measures of global human identification
The influence of war on moral judgments about harm
The moral landscape of war
When getting more makes groups seem worth less
Moral tribalism
Psychological Factors Associated with Support for Suicide Bombing in the Muslim Diaspora
The Slow Creation of Humanity
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How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization
Group-Based Dominance and Opposition to Equality Correspond to Different Psychological Motives
The Psychology of Conservatism
Selfishness examined
Insensitivity to the Value of Human Life
Context-Dependent Preferences
Money, Kisses, and Electric Shocks
Dehumanization
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Looking Deathworthy
The Emotional Side of Prejudice
Value elicitation
Positive–Negative Asymmetry in Social Discrimination
Including others in the self
Weighing the Prospects of War
Social categorization and intergroup behaviour
Don't ignore the other half
Moral Exclusion and Injustice
Prejudice as self-image maintenance
Us and them
Risk taking, frame of reference, and characterization of victim groups in Aids treatment decisions
Social dominance orientation
Social dominance orientation and the political psychology of gender
Who Gets What and Why
Taboo Trade‐offs
Differential power and effects of expected competitive and cooperative intergroup interaction on intragroup and outgroup attitudes
Is there any scapegoat around? Determinants of intergroup conflicts at different categorization levels
Intergroup aggression
Negotiating social identity when contexts change
Measuring individual differences in empathy
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
In-group bias in the minimal intergroup situation
Universalism Values and the Inclusiveness of Our Moral Universe
| Unique citing works | 39 |
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| Citations per year | 2,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |