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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 4, Pages 551-559Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2003.11.002
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aggression; diffusion of responsibility; group aggression; groups; intergroup aggression; interindividal-intergroup discontinuity
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Experimental research comparing aggressive behavior committed by groups and individuals is important but sparse. This experiment compared aggressive behavior (i.e., amount of hot sauce allocated for others to consume) in four types of interactions: intergroup, interindividual, group-to-individual, and individual-to-group. The results revealed that intergroup interactions were significantly more aggressive than interindividual interactions. In addition, groups allocated and received significantly more hot sauce than individuals. These effects were not explained by diffusion of responsibility or trait aggressiveness. The experiment reveals two noteworthy conclusions: (1) the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect extends to aggressive behavior and (2) interactions in which a group is either the source or target of aggression are situational influences that can increase it. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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