Threats to identity, self-esteem and intergroup discrimination

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John A. Hunter
Kerry O'Brien
Maurice Stringer
Cite this article:  Hunter, J., O'Brien, K., & Stringer, M. (2007). Threats to identity, self-esteem and intergroup discrimination. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 35(7), 937-942.


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The present study sought to test two hypotheses. The first was that intergroup discrimination leads to increased self-esteem. The second was that threatened self-esteem (i.e., operationalized here as the extent to which people believe that the ingroup is negatively evaluated by an outgroup) would lead to increased intergroup discrimination. Support was found for both hypotheses.

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