Abstract. Three studies investigated the influence of collective threat on the importance of agency- and communion-related traits used in ingroup perception. Study 1 ( N = 137) investigated how cues of such threat affect reaction times when individuals are asked to ascribe agentic or communal traits to their ingroup. Study 2 ( N = 96) and Study 3 ( N = 337) examined the role of social identification in response to a collective threat. The results suggest that cues of threat may lead to preferential processing of positive (but not negative) ingroup agency over ingroup communion, the effect particularly likely among highly identified individuals. Perceiving the ingroup as an agentic collective may thus act as a buffer that assists in managing threat-related emotions.

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集体威胁的线索增加了积极的内群体代理相关特征的显着性

摘要。三项研究调查了集体威胁对内群体感知中使用的代理和交流相关特征的重要性的影响。研究 1 (N = 137) 调查了当个人被要求将代理或公共特征归因于他们的内群时，这种威胁的线索如何影响反应时间。研究 2 (N = 96) 和研究 3 (N = 337) 检验了社会认同在应对集体威胁中的作用。结果表明，威胁的线索可能会导致积极（但不是消极）的群体内代理优先于群体内的交流，这种影响在高度认同的个体中尤其可能发生。因此，将内群视为一个代理集体可以充当帮助管理与威胁相关的情绪的缓冲区。