TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gramzow, Richard H.
AU2 - Gaertner, Lowell
AU3 - Sedikides, Constantine
AB - The authors argue that persons derive in-group expectanciesfrom self-knowledge. This implies that perceivers processinformation about novel in-groups on the basis of theself-congruency of this information and not simply its valence.In Experiment 1, participants recalled more negativeself-discrepant behaviors about an in-group than about anout-group. Experiment 2 replicated this effect under lowcognitive load but not under high load. Experiment 3 replicated theeffect using an idiographic procedure. These findings suggest thatperceivers engage in elaborative inconsistency processing when they encounternegative self-discrepant information about an in-group but notwhen they encounter negative self-congruent information.Participants were also more likely to attribute self-congruentinformation to the in-group than to the out-group,regardless of information valence. Implications for models of socialmemory and self-categorization theory are discussed.
TI - Memory for In-Group and Out-Group Information in a Minimal Group Context: The Self as an Informational Base
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.80.2.188
DA - 2001-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/memory-for-in-group-and-out-group-information-in-a-minimal-group-0OuZdpO85L
SP - 188
EP - 205
VL - 80
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -