Carleton University, Department of Psychology,1125 Colonel By Drive, B550 Loeb Building, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2010 Jul;36(7):898-910. doi: 10.1177/0146167210372505. Epub 2010 Jun 2.
Collective angst reflects concern about the ingroup's future vitality. In four studies, the authors examined the impact of ingroup extinction threat on the experience of collective angst. In Study 1, collective angst was elicited in response to a physical or symbolic ingroup extinction threat compared to a no-threat control group. In Study 2, the extent to which French Canadians expressed collective angst because of the perceived extinction threat posed by English Canada predicted desire to engage in ingroup strengthening behaviors. In Studies 3 and 4, the impact of a historical extinction threat was assessed. The extent to which Jewish people expressed thinking about (Study 3) or were reminded of the Holocaust (Study 4) resulted in an increased desire to engage in ingroup strengthening behaviors. Collective angst acted as a mediator of these effects. Implications of extinction threat for both intragroup and intergroup behavior are discussed.
集体焦虑反映了对群体未来活力的担忧。在四项研究中，作者研究了群体灭绝威胁对集体焦虑体验的影响。在研究 1 中，与无威胁对照组相比，参与者对身体或象征性的群体灭绝威胁做出了集体焦虑的反应。在研究 2 中，由于加拿大英语对加拿大法语的感知灭绝威胁，加拿大法语群体表达集体焦虑的程度预测了他们参与群体强化行为的愿望。在研究 3 和 4 中，评估了历史灭绝威胁的影响。犹太人对大屠杀的思考（研究 3）或被提醒（研究 4）的程度导致了他们参与群体强化行为的愿望增强。集体焦虑是这些影响的中介。灭绝威胁对群体内和群体间行为的影响将被讨论。
