Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2013 Mar;52(1):1-24. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12026.
Despite their shared focus on groups, research bridging intragroup processes and intergroup relations is surprisingly rare. The goal of the present article is to highlight how understanding the reciprocal relationship between intragroup processes and intergroup relations offers valuable new insights into both topics and suggests new, productive avenues for research and theory development - particularly for understanding and improving intergroup relations. The article next briefly reviews key findings from three dominant frameworks in the field of intergroup relations: social cognition, social identity, and functional relations. It then discusses the complementary role of intergroup and intragroup dynamics, reviewing how intergroup relations can affect intragroup processes and then discussing how intragroup dynamics can shape intergroup relations. The final section considers the implications, theoretical and practical, of the proposed reciprocal relationships between intragroup and intergroup processes.
尽管它们都关注群体，但将群体内部过程和群体间关系的研究联系起来的研究却少之又少。本文的目的是强调理解群体内部过程和群体间关系之间的相互关系如何为这两个主题提供有价值的新见解，并为研究和理论发展提出新的、富有成效的途径-特别是为了理解和改善群体间关系。文章接下来简要回顾了群体间关系领域三个主要框架的关键发现：社会认知、社会认同和功能关系。然后讨论了群体间和群体内部动态的互补作用，回顾了群体间关系如何影响群体内部过程，然后讨论了群体内部动态如何塑造群体间关系。最后一节考虑了群体内部和群体间过程之间提出的相互关系的理论和实际意义。
