Explanations and Evaluations by Turks and Dutchmen of Norm Violating Ingroup and Outgroup Behaviour

✍ Scribed by SANDRA G. L. SCHRUIJER; LEX LEMMERS

• Book ID: 101282879
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 459 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1052-9284
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1298(199605)6:2<101::aid-casp357>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

Group-serving biases in the explanation and evaluation of norm violating ingroup and outgroup behaviour are investigated. The intergroup relationship concerns autochthonous Dutchmen and allochthonous Turks living in The Netherlands. It was hypothesized that Dutch observers exhibit group-serving biases. No hypothesis was formulated for the Turks. A 2 x 2 design was employed with actor's group membership (ingroup or outgroup), and observer's group membership (Dutch or Turkish) as factors. 50 Dutch and 50 Turkish pupils responded to a hypothetical norm violating situation. The Dutch displayed a group-serving bias on some variables, but ingroup derogation on others. The Turks engaged in a consistent group-serving bias. These outcomes are discussed in terms of the groups' need to strive for a positive social identity vis-84s one another and the role explaining away negative ingroup behaviour in fulfilling this need. Key worh: group-serving bias 'Author for correspondence. *This paper is a revised version of a chapter in the first author's PhD-thesis published by Tilburg University Press entitled 'Norm violation, attributions and attitudes in intergroup relations' (1990).