Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Affiliation Bias

Director Nicholas Spikings: You were in the Olympics. You know about being a team player?
Agent Nina Chance: Sharpshooting isn't a team sport.
Director Nicholas Spikings: This is.
--Murder at 1600

Collectivists are, by definition, prone to elevate the wishes of the group over their own. This makes collectivists particularly vulnerable to biases that accompany group affiliation. These include:

In-group favoritism. Affinity for people who belong to the same group. Special treatment is given to in-group members that is not afforded to outsiders.

Out-group derogation. Those in out-groups are seen as threating and inferior. Outsiders become targets of discrimination and ridicule.

In-group influence. In-group members will be prone to shift their personal views toward those of the group.

In-group extremity. Extreme behavior that individuals would never condone by themselves is endorsed when they are members of a group.

Group uniqueness and superiority. Belief that the in-group possesses characteristics that are unique and superior to those of other groups.

The higher a person rates on the collectivist scale, the greater the tendency that this person will display these affiliation biases.

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