Resistant versus acquiescent responses to ingroup inferiority as a function of social dominance orientation in the USA and Italy

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-54

  Overbeck, Jennifer R ^a,b   Jost, John T ^c,d,e   Mosso, Cristina O ^f   Flizik, Agnieszka ^g  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inferiority; Intergroup relations; Outgroup favoritism; Power; Social dominance; Social identity; Status; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843068993     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430204039972     Document Type: Article

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