User menu

Accès à distance ? S'identifier sur le proxy UCLouvain

Social categorization and fear reactions to the September 11th terrorist attacks

Primary tabs

Dumont, Muriel [UCL] Yzerbyt, Vincent [UCL] Wigboldus, Daniël Gordijn, Ernestine H

Two experiments were run in The Netherlands and Belgium 1 week after the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. The aim was to investigate whether social categorization affected emotional reactions, behavioral tendencies, and actual behaviors. Results showed that focusing participants' attention on an identity that included American victims into a common ingroup led them to report more fear and stronger fear-related behavioral tendencies and to engage more often in fear-related behaviors than when victims were categorized as outgroup members. Results are discussed with respect to appraisal theories of emotion and E. R. Smith's model of group-based emotions.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche – Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2003
Language Anglais
Journal information "Personality and social psychology bulletin" - Vol. 29, no. 12, p. 1509-20 (2003)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0146-1672
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - PSP/PSP - faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation
MESH Subject Adolescent ; Adult ; Aircraft ; Anger ; Arabs - psychology ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology ; Fear ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; New York City ; Principal Component Analysis ; Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data ; Questionnaires ; Social Identification ; Social Perception ; Students - psychology ; Terrorism - psychology
Links
  1. Doosje Bertjan, Branscombe Nyla R., Spears Russell, Manstead Antony S. R., Guilty by association: When one's group has a negative history., 10.1037/0022-3514.75.4.872
  2. Frijda Nico H., Kuipers Peter, ter Schure Elisabeth, Relations among emotion, appraisal, and emotional action readiness., 10.1037/0022-3514.57.2.212
  3. Gordijn Ernestine H., Wigboldus Daniël, Yzerbyt Vincent, Emotional Consequences of Categorizing Victims of Negative Outgroup Behavior as Ingroup or Outgroup, 10.1177/1368430201004004002
  4. Lazarus Richard S., Progress on a cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion., 10.1037/0003-066x.46.8.819
  5. Mackie Diane M., Devos Thierry, Smith Eliot R., Intergroup emotions: Explaining offensive action tendencies in an intergroup context., 10.1037/0022-3514.79.4.602
  6. Smith Craig A., Ellsworth Phoebe C., Patterns of cognitive appraisal in emotion., 10.1037/0022-3514.48.4.813
  7. Wyer Natalie A, Sadler Melody S, Judd Charles M, Contrast effects in stereotype formation and change: the role of comparative context, 10.1016/s0022-1031(02)00010-0
  8. Yzerbyt, V., Dumont, M., Wigboldus, D. &Gordijn, E. (inpress). I feel for us: A self-categorization account of intergroup emotions and action tendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Bibliographic reference Dumont, Muriel ; Yzerbyt, Vincent ; Wigboldus, Daniël ; Gordijn, Ernestine H. Social categorization and fear reactions to the September 11th terrorist attacks. In: Personality and social psychology bulletin, Vol. 29, no. 12, p. 1509-20 (2003)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/23976