APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Competing Motives: Assimilating Ingroup Traits and Self-Derogating for the Ingroup
- Jacob Elder
University of California Riverside - Tyler Davis
Independent Researcher - Brent Hughes
University of California, Riverside
Abstract
People desire to see themselves positively, but also to belong to their ingroup. What happens when these motives conflict? Across three learning tasks with Hispanic/Latino, Asian, and Democrat participants, people self-derogate to assimilate traits perceived as group-typical into the self-concept, via category-learning mechanisms over error-learning mechanisms.
Motivation
