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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 1559-1572Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206291673
Keywords
group morality; intergroup conflict; loyalty; guilt; empathy
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An observational, cross-cultural study and an experimental study assessed behaviors indicative of a moral code that condones, and even values, hostility toward outgroups. The cross-cultural study, which used data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (Murdock & White, 1969), found that for preindustrial societies, as loyalty to the ingroup increased the tendency to value outgroup violence more than ingroup violence increased, as did the tendencies to engage in more external than internal warfare, and enjoy war The experimental study,found that relative to guilt-prone group members who were instructed. to remain objective, guilt-prone group members who were instructed to be empathic with their ingroup were more competitive in an intergroup interaction. The findings from these studies suggest that group morality is associated with intergroup conflict.
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