They (Don’t) Need Us: Functional Indispensability Impacts Perceptions of Representativeness and Commitment When Lower-Status Groups Go Through an Intergroup Merger

They (Don’t) Need Us: Functional Indispensability Impacts Perceptions of Representativeness and Commitment When Lower-Status Groups Go Through an Intergroup Merger

Intergroup changes occur often between subgroups who are asymmetric in status (e.g., size, power, prestige), with important consequences for social identification, especially among the members of lower-status groups. Mergers offer an example of such changes, when subgroups (merger partners) merge in...

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Main Authors: Miriam Rosa, Steffen Giessner, Rita Guerra, Sven Waldzus, Anna-Maria Kersting, Katarina Veličković, Elizabeth C. Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
intergroup relations
intergroup change
mergers
lower-status groups
prototypicality
functional indispensability
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02772/full

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