Victim sensitivity (VS)—a personality trait reflecting the anxious expectation of being exploited—reliably predicts egoistic behavior in interpersonal situations. Here, we look at intragroup situations and investigate whether even one highly victim‐sensitive individual can have a detrimental effect of solidarity and cooperativeness on the entire group. Two studies—one field study with community residents from Philippine villages who played a solidarity game (N  800 individuals, 30 villages) and one lab study with participants in a small‐group setting (N = 144 individuals, 48 groups) who played a public goods game—show that the highest VS score in a group negatively predicts solidarity and cooperation in the group, especially when external stressors (e.g., a natural disaster and a climate of distrust) are present and group‐level resilience factors (e.g., in‐group identification and task enjoyment) are absent. These results are relevant for research on the intragroup processes both from a basic as well as from an applied perspective.

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群体中的受害者敏感性：什么时候对所有人有害？

受害人敏感性（VS）是一种反映被人渴望被剥削的性格特征，可以可靠地预测人际关系中的利己行为。在这里，我们研究了群体内部的情况，并调查了即使是一个高度受害人敏感的个人，是否也会对整个群体产生团结与合作的不利影响。两项研究-一项对来自菲律宾村庄的社区居民进行团结游戏的野外研究（N   800个人，30个村庄），以及一项对小组环境下的参与者进行实验室研究（N = 144个人，共48个小组，他们参加了公益游戏-显示小组中最高的VS分数负面地预测了小组中的团结与合作，尤其是在存在外部压力（例如自然灾害和不信任气氛）的情况下缺少组级别的弹性因素（例如，组内标识和任务享受）。这些结果与从基本的和从应用的角度来看对组内过程的研究有关。