Reactions upon a failed attempt to enter a high status group: an experimental test of the five-stage model
✍ Scribed by Filip Boen; Norbert Vanbeselaere
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0046-2772
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✦ Synopsis
In a replication of Wright, Taylor and Moghaddam (1990a), group openness (open/ minimally open/closed) and individual ability (high/low) were manipulated. Participating in their regular class-groups, 114 male teenagers tried to gain access into a high status group. On their subsequent rejection, they indicated their endorsement of ®ve behavioural options, ranging from acceptance to combinations of individual/collective and normative/nonnormative action alternatives. Overall, they preferred normative reactions, both collective and individual, to nonnormative ones. Nonnormative action, especially collective nonnormative action, was only favoured by talented subjects confronted with a completely closed high status group. These subjects were also the only ones who reported negative feelings both about their personal and about their group treatment. These results challenge previous ®ndings and suggest a partial modi®cation of the ®ve-stage model.