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GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 247-279Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1368430220962563
Keywords
civil liberties; human rights; human rights violations; meta-analysis; perceived threat
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Individuals tend to limit their own and others' rights when feeling threatened, even though they express support for civil liberties and human rights. This study found that perceived threats increase support for restrictions against outgroup members more than ingroup members, providing a possible punitive explanation for such support.
Individuals express support for civil liberties and human rights, but when threatened tend to restrict rights for both others and themselves. However, the question of whether or not rights are restricted to punish others or protect ourselves remains unclear. This meta-analysis integrates the findings of the effect of perceived threats on support for restrictions of civil liberties from 1997 to 2019. It includes 163 effect-size estimates from 46 different articles involving 91,716 participants. The presence of threat increased support for restrictions against outgroup members significantly more than ingroup members, providing a possible punitive explanation for support for restrictions of civil liberties. These findings contribute to the debate on rights and their relationship with deservingness, suggesting that we delineate those who deserve human rights and those who do not.
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