Abstract
Examined the effects of incidental sadness and anger on affiliative responses to crossed categorization targets. Affect manipulations included an anger-provoking frustration (Study 1), a sad film clip (Study 2), and autobiographical essays about sad or anger-provoking topics (Studies 3 and 4). By comparison with a neutral mood, anger (Study 1) reduced affiliative tendencies toward persons possessing an out-group membership but not toward those possessing only in-group memberships. Study 2 showed a similar pattern for sadness. Studies 3 and 4 replicated these effects in designs including both types of negative mood. Meta-analytic integration showed the pattern of greater rejection of targets with an out-group membership to be stronger under anger than sadness. Study 4 also showed that despite yielding a consistent pattern for affiliation, sadness and anger differentially elicited aggressive tendencies toward the same targets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 195-219 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was partially facilitated by National Science Foundation Grant SBR 931 9752. We thank Dr. Jerald M. Jellison for allowing us to conduct Study 3 with students from his course. We also thank Dr. Darren I. Urada for creating the randomization program used in these studies; copies of the program may be requested via electronic mail: [email protected].
Keywords
- Affiliation
- Anger
- Crossed categorization
- Intergroup aggression
- Mood congruency
- Negative affect
- Sadness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Psychology
- Sociology and Political Science