Violent CRED s toward Out-Groups Increase Trustworthiness: Preliminary Experimental Evidence
In the process of cultural learning, people tend to acquire mental representations and behavior from prestigious individuals over dominant ones, as prestigious individuals generously share their expertise and know-how to gain admiration, whereas dominant ones use violence, manipulation, and intimida...
| Published in: | Journal of cognition and culture |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of cognition and culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ingroup
/ Altruism
/ Conflict
/ Disposition to violence
/ Fremdgruppe
/ Trustworthiness
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
credibility enhancing displays
B Trustworthiness B prestige bias B intergroup violence B parochial altruism |
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| Summary: | In the process of cultural learning, people tend to acquire mental representations and behavior from prestigious individuals over dominant ones, as prestigious individuals generously share their expertise and know-how to gain admiration, whereas dominant ones use violence, manipulation, and intimidation to enforce obedience. However, in the context of intergroup conflict, violent thoughts and behavior that are otherwise associated with dominance can hypothetically become prestigious because parochial altruists, who engage in violence against out-groups, act in the interest of their group members, therefore prosocially. This shift would imply that for other in-groups, individuals behaving violently toward out-groups during intergroup conflicts become simultaneously prestigious, making them desirable cultural models to learn from. Using the mechanism of credibility enhancing displays (CREDs), this article presents preliminary vignette-based evidence that violent CREDs toward out-groups during intergroup conflict increase the perceived trustworthiness of a violent cultural model. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5373 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340084 |