When I's meet: sharing subjective experience with someone from the outgroup

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
Elizabeth C Pinel, Anson E Long

Abstract

Believing one shares a subjective experience with another (i.e., I-sharing) fosters connections among strangers and alters perceptions of the ingroup and outgroup. In this article, the authors ask whether I-sharing also fosters liking for members of a salient outgroup. Study 1 establishes that I-sharing promotes liking for the other sex, even among people with salient social identities. Study 2 shows that I-sharing promotes liking for a member of the sexual orientation outgroup, whether it occurs before or after group memberships get revealed. Study 3 focuses on salient race categories and looks at the effects of I-sharing versus value-sharing as a function of shared group membership. For those high in existential isolation, I-sharing trumps value-sharing, regardless of the I-sharer's social identity. I-sharing may offer a way of improving attitudes toward outgroup members that still enables people to embrace their differing social identities.

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Citations

Apr 14, 2015·The Journal of Social Psychology·Elizabeth C PinelMark Huneke
Sep 27, 2016·The Journal of Social Psychology·Anson E LongGeneva C Yawger
May 12, 2018·Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin·Elizabeth C PinelGeneva C Yawger
Dec 4, 2017·The British Journal of Social Psychology·Elizabeth C PinelSasha K Finnell
Sep 16, 2017·Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin·Evan Polman, Sam J Maglio
Sep 11, 2021·The British Journal of Social Psychology·Anson E LongAbby E Costello
Nov 3, 2021·Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications·Kerry KawakamiKurt Hugenberg
Jan 1, 2022·Personality and Social Psychology Review : an Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc·Garriy ShteynbergR Alexander Bentley

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