Striving for Group Agency: Threat to Personal Control Increases the Attractiveness of Agentic Groups
When their sense of personal control is threatened people try to restore perceived control through the social self. We propose that it is the perceived agency of ingroups that provides the self with a sense of control. In three experiments, we for the first time tested the hypothesis that threat to...
Main Authors: | Janine eStollberg, Immo eFritsche, Anna eBäcker |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00649/full |
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