intragroup dynamics of praise and exclusion in intergroup conflict

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25780373
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University (2014-2015); Kyoto Bunkyo University (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Nawata Kengo 九州大学, 持続可能な社会のための決断科学センター, 講師 (30631361)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 集団間紛争

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to clear out intragroup dynamics of reputation in intergroup conflict. The intragroup reputation dynamics have two phases: praise gain and exclusion avoidance. To examine the effect of praise gain, the relation between honor cultures, praise to warrior was analyzed using cross-cultural database, and I conducted survey expression of attitude toward Japanese in China to investigate the effect of rejection avoidance. These studies demonstrated that both praise gain and exclusion avoidance escalated intergroup conflict.

Free Research Field

社会心理学