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  • Title: To belong or not to belong, that is the question: terror management and identification with gender and ethnicity.
    Author: Arndt J, Greenberg J, Schimel J, Pyszczynski T, Solomon S.
    Journal: J Pers Soc Psychol; 2002 Jul; 83(1):26-43. PubMed ID: 12088130.
    Abstract:
    The terror management prediction that reminders of death motivate in-group identification assumes people view their identifications positively. However, when the in-group is framed negatively, mortality salience should lead to disidentification. Study 1 found that mortality salience increased women's perceived similarity to other women except under gender-based stereotype threat. In Study 2, mortality salience and a negative ethnic prime led Hispanic as well as Anglo participants to derogate paintings attributed to Hispanic (but not Anglo-American) artists. Study 3 added a neutral prime condition and used a more direct measure of psychological distancing. Mortality salience and the negative prime led Hispanic participants to view themselves as especially different from a fellow Hispanic. Implications for understanding in-group derogation and disidentification are briefly discussed.
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