The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2020 Nov;46(11):1596-1613. doi: 10.1177/0146167220910833. Epub 2020 Mar 19.
Group-based emotions can shape group members' behaviors and intergroup relations. Therefore, we propose that people may try to regulate emotions of outgroup members to attain ingroup goals. We call this phenomenon "motivated intergroup emotion regulation." In four studies, conducted in both hypothetical and real-world contexts, we show that deterrence and reconciliation goals influence how fearful or calm people want outgroup members to feel, respectively. We further show that such motivated intergroup emotion regulation can guide behavior toward the outgroup, influencing how outgroup members feel (Studies 1, 2, and 4) and behave (Study 4). We demonstrate how affiliation with the ingroup, which renders ingroup goals more salient, shapes what ingroup members want outgroup members to feel (Studies 3 and 4) and subsequently how outgroup members feel and behave (Study 4). Finally, we discuss how motivated intergroup emotion regulation might contribute to understanding motivation in emotion regulation, group-based emotions, and intergroup relations.
群体情绪可以塑造群体成员的行为和群体间关系。因此，我们提出人们可能会试图调节外群体成员的情绪，以实现群体目标。我们称这种现象为“有动机的群体间情绪调节”。在四个研究中，我们在假设和现实情境中都表明，威慑和和解目标分别影响人们希望外群体成员感到恐惧或冷静的程度。我们进一步表明，这种有动机的群体间情绪调节可以指导对外群体的行为，影响外群体成员的感受（研究 1、2 和 4）和行为（研究 4）。我们展示了群体认同如何塑造群体成员希望外群体成员感受到的情绪（研究 3 和 4），以及外群体成员的感受和行为（研究 4），群体认同使群体目标更加突出。最后，我们讨论了有动机的群体间情绪调节如何有助于理解情绪调节、基于群体的情绪和群体间关系中的动机。
