Differential attribution of secondary emotions to members of the ingroup and the outgroup: infrahumanization bias in children
ISSN: 0210-9395
Year of publication: 2015
Volume: 36
Issue: 2
Pages: 366-388
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios de Psicología = Studies in Psychology
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JCR (Journal Impact Factor)
- Year 2015
- Journal Impact Factor: 0.221
- Journal Impact Factor without self cites: 0.206
- Article influence score: 0.108
- Best Quartile: Q4
- Area: PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Quartile: Q4 Rank in area: 122/129 (Ranking edition: SSCI)
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- Year 2015
- SJR Journal Impact: 0.252
- Best Quartile: Q3
- Area: Psychology (miscellaneous) Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 155/254
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- Year 2015
- Journal Impact: 0.420
- Field: PSICOLOGÍA Quartile: C2 Rank in field: 26/115
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- Social Sciences: B
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- Year 2015
- CiteScore of the Journal : 0.8
- Area: Psychology (all) Percentile: 29
Abstract
Research on infrahumanization has shown that people reserve uniquely human characteristics, including secondary emotions, for their ingroup, and deny them to their outgroup. However, this hypothesis has been corroborated almost exclusively in adults. The present research objective is to determine whether children, like adults, infrahumanize members of the outgroup. Forty-eight children in a competitive sports context were asked to attribute several secondary emotions to members of the ingroup and the outgroup. Results revealed that, like adults, children infrahumanize the outgroup. Their attributions showed a reluctance to accept the outgroup�s secondary emotions, which they reserved exclusively for the ingroup. Specifically, children attributed more positive and negative secondary emotions to the ingroup than the outgroup