Interventions that confront men with male privilege can threaten their social identity. Past research on White privilege confrontations has suggested group-image threat is a positive predictor of positive privilege attitudes. However, research on emotional appraisals of ingroup transgressions demonstrates that feelings of shame elicited by the ingroup's negative image lead to less constructive responses while feelings of shame elicited by the ingroup's moral failure motivate more positive reactions. To reconcile these different predictions, we examined how relevant dimensions of threat (to the ingroup's image or to moral values of the group) and subsequent experiences of shame (image shame, moral shame) affect men's privilege attitudes in response to male privilege confrontations. Across three preregistered experiments (N = 1463 men), we found that male confronters were evaluated more positively, which was explained through lower levels of image concerns toward male confronters. We also found evidence that morality concerns are related to more positive responses. Although the total effects on privilege attitudes were small, our findings highlight the importance for future research and practice to distinguish between the positive effects of moral threat through moral shame and the negative effects of group-image threat through image shame in privilege interventions.

让男性享有男性特权的干预措施可能会威胁到他们的社会身份。过去对白人特权对抗的研究表明，群体形象威胁是积极特权态度的积极预测因素。然而，对内群体越轨情绪评估的研究表明，由内群体的负面形象引发的羞耻感会导致较少的建设性反应，而由内群体道德失败引发的羞耻感会激发更多的积极反应。为了调和这些不同的预测，我们研究了威胁的相关维度（对内群体的形象或对群体的道德价值观）和随后的羞耻经历（形象羞耻、道德羞耻）如何影响男性对男性特权对抗的特权态度。 = 1463 名男性），我们发现男性对抗者得到了更积极的评价，这可以通过对男性对抗者较低水平的形象关注来解释。我们还发现证据表明道德问题与更积极的反应有关。尽管对特权态度的总体影响很小，但我们的研究结果强调了未来研究和实践的重要性，以区分特权干预中道德羞耻带来的道德威胁的积极影响和特权干预中形象羞耻带来的群体形象威胁的负面影响。