Helping Disadvantaged Out-Groups Challenge Unjust Inequality: The Role of Group-Based Emotions

The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior: Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, and Helping

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 337-353

  Iyer, Aarti ^a   Leach, Colin Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Disadvantaged groups experience and response to their low status position; Downplaying psychology of advantaged; Exclusive focus on the disadvantaged; Focus on self interest of advantaged people; Frameworks of participation in collective action; Helping by confronting those responsible for wrong doing; Out groups to challenge unjust inequality and group based emotions; Politicized collective identity and awareness of shared grievances; Self relevance as explanation of out group helping; Simon and Klandermans' framework of politicized collective identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890653295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307948.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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