The Influence Of Fusion Identity And Emotion On The Extremely Pro-group Behavior In Different Threaten Context

There were ambivalent conclusions in the study of the threat situation and personal behavior.Increasing effect and reducing effect were both found in different researches.It might be that those studies have not taken the comprehensive perspective with the context of threat,personality,emotion and behavior.This dissertation built a model which combined the threat,identity fusion,anger and extremely progroup behavior.And we found that there were two opposite models in the interpersonal situation and intergroup situation through 7 series studies.Before the series studies,we afresh revised the extremely progroup behavior questionnaire.Besides the previous two dimensions in the original questionnaire,purely progroup behavior and protective progroup behavior,we defined a third dimension of extremely progroup behavior,active aggressive progroup behavior.Based on the newly revised extremely progroup behavior questionnaire,the theoretical three-dimensional model was confirmed.And the new questionnaire had good validity and reliability.Experiment 1(103 participants)used a reading priming procedure to manipulate an intergroup threat and experiment 2(119participants)used a scenario story to manipulate a social exclusion threat.Both two studied confirmed the hypothesis that people with a higher identity fusion more likely got anger in a threat situation than people with a lower identity fusion in the threat situation.Identity fusion was a moderate variable in the relation between the threat situation and anger.Following the results in experiment 2,experiment 3(173 participants)used a scenario story and experiment 4(134 participants)used a social exclusion paradigm to manipulate the ingroup exclusion threat.Both two experiments indicated that social exclusion in an ingroup situation would damage the extremely progroup behavior of people with higher identity fusion,comparing to the people with higher identity fusion in a social inclusion situation.And people with lower identity fusion had no different between two opposite situation.Identity fusion was a moderate variable in the relation between the threat situation and the extremely progroup behavior.Although people with higher identity fusion were more anger in the social exclusion situation,but anger took no effect in this moderation model.Experiment 5(129 participants)used the outgroup social exclusion situation and also replicated the result in experiment 3 and 4.So identity fusion is a simple moderate variable in the relationship between social exclusion and progroup extremely behavior.Following the results in experiment 2,the last two experiments(94 participants and 86 participants)used the reading priming procedure to indicate that in the intergroup threat situation,people with higher identity fusion didn’t reduce extremely progroup behavior,comparing with the no intergroup threat.But people with lower identity fusion significantly reduced their extremely progroup behavior in the threat situation,comparing with no threat situation.Identity fusion play a moderate role between the intergroup threat and the extremely progroup behavior and this moderation effect was mediated by anger.People with higher identity fusion would be aroused more anger and then they preferred more extremely behavior.And we suggested the different perceived group-standing in two kinds of threat context led to the mental mechanism and behavior difference.