It's only discrimination when they do it to us: When White men use ingroup-serving double standards in definitional boundaries of discrimination
There is widespread agreement that discrimination is bad, but disagreement about how discrimination is defined and identified. Discrimination is sometimes defined narrowly (including only a restricted range of behaviours), and sometimes broadly (encompassing a wide range of behaviours). Three experiments (the latter 2 preregistered) found that White men define sexist discrimination (Study 1, N = 88) and racist discrimination (Study 2, N = 130; Study 3, N = 128) more narrowly when it was committed by their group against others and more broadly when it was directed against their group by others. Collective narcissism moderated (i.e., exacerbated) this effect in all three studies. However, when social dominance orientation was considered simultaneously, it emerged as the more reliable moderator (Study 3). These results highlight that definitions of discrimination are not static but employed flexibly depending on context and hierarchy-supporting motivations.
Item Type | Article |
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Additional Information |
We pre-registered the second and third experiment on the As Predicted website (https://aspredicted.org). No data collection was done before the pre-registrations occurred. Pre-registration, and all materials used in both experiments are available either in the manuscript or on the pre-registration website (https://aspredicted.org/blind.php?x=dm29rv; https://aspredicted.org/C74_8CV). Power analyses and sensitivity analyses are all available in the manuscript. |
Keywords | discrimination; definitional boundaries; racial discrimination; gender discrimination |
Departments, Centres and Research Units | Psychology |
Date Deposited | 16 Mar 2022 09:41 |
Last Modified | 15 Sep 2022 14:06 |
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