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Core disgust is attenuated by ingroup relations

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Date
08/03/2016
Author
Reicher, Stephen David
Templeton, Anne
Neville, Fergus Gilmour
Ferrari, Lucienne
Drury, John
Keywords
Disgust
Social identity
Groups
Group processes
Coaction
BF Psychology
RA Public aspects of medicine
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RJ Pediatrics
NDAS
BDC
R2C
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Abstract
We present the first experimental evidence to our knowledge that ingroup relations attenuate core disgust and that this helps explain the ability of groups to coact. In study 1, 45 student participants smelled a sweaty t-shirt bearing the logo of another university, with either their student identity (ingroup condition), their specific university identity (outgroup condition), or their personal identity (interpersonal condition) made salient. Self-reported disgust was lower in the ingroup condition than in the other conditions, and disgust mediated the relationship between condition and willingness to interact with target. In study 2, 90 student participants smelled a sweaty target t-shirt bearing either the logo of their own university, another university, or no logo, with either their student identity or their specific university identity made salient. Walking time to wash hands and pumps of soap indicated that disgust was lower where the relationship between participant and target was ingroup rather than outgroup or ambivalent (no logo).
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Reicher , S D , Templeton , A , Neville , F G , Ferrari , L & Drury , J 2016 , ' Core disgust is attenuated by ingroup relations ' , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , vol. 113 , no. 10 , pp. 2631-2635 . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517027113
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517027113
ISSN
0027-8424
Type
Journal article
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Copyrught © 2016, the Author(s). This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517027113
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9359

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