Drawing on the social categorization perspective, we theorized that team demographic faultlines increase negative group affective tone (NGAT) through reduced group identification, while team member positive impression management behaviors enhance positive group affective tone (PGAT) via enhanced group identification. Data were collected from 523 members of 101 newly formed student teams. Consistent with our hypotheses, team demographic faultlines were positively predicted NGAT via reduced group identification, while team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors were positively associated with PGAT through group identification. Importantly, team self-promotion and ingratiation behaviors also mitigated the social categorization processes triggered by team demographic faultlines.

从社会分类的角度出发，我们得出结论，团队人口统计断层线通过减少群体识别来增加负面群体情感基调（NGAT），而团队成员正面印象管理行为则通过增强群体识别来增强正面群体情感基调（PGAT）。数据收集自101个新组建的学生团队的523名成员。与我们的假设一致，通过减少群体识别，团队人口统计学断层被预测为NGAT，而通过群体识别，团队自我提升和自我灌输的行为与PGAT正相关。重要的是，团队的自我促进和崇拜行为也减轻了由团队人口统计缺陷触发的社会分类过程。