Intragroup dissonance: Responses to ingroup violation of personal values
by Glasford, Demis E., Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, 2007, 116 pages; 3279275

Abstract:

The present research draws on cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, 1957) and social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978) to examine intragroup dissonance, a discrepancy between one's personal values and the behavior of one's ingroup that results in psychological discomfort. Across three experiments, I manipulated whether participants' ingroup violated a personal value, measured participants' emotional responses and use of dissonance-reduction strategies. As expected, individuals experienced psychological discomfort (but not negative self-directed emotion), when an ingroup, but not an outgroup, violated a personal value. In all experiments, disidentification was used as a dissonance-reduction strategy, such that psychological discomfort mediated the tendency to disidentify when the ingroup violated the personal value. Results are discussed with respect to social identity, cognitive dissonance theory and intragroup dynamics.

 
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SchoolUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
SourceDAI/B 68-08, p. , Dec 2007
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsSocial psychology
Publication Number3279275
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