Voci, A. (2006). European Journal of Social Psychology, 36(1), 73–90. DOI-10.1002/ejsp.259
Not read. Everything below is taken from the abstract in Crossref’s record and has not been checked against the paper.
Key takeaways
From the abstract only.
- Design. Two field studies. In the first the participants were football fans, in the second the employees of an organization. Each had two conditions that varied the accessibility and salience of the ingroup–outgroup categorization.
- Measures. New measures of comparative fit and of depersonalization, “based on meta-contrast ratios”. The outcomes were ingroup bias (both studies) and, in Study 2, ingroup entitativity, organizational citizenship behaviours, job satisfaction and turnover intentions.
- Result as reported. “Comparative fit determined ingroup bias and other criterion variables through the mediating process of depersonalization”, and this process “was active only when the category was highly accessible”. Accessibility moderated the link from depersonalization to the outcomes, “not the link between fit and depersonalization”.
Why this is here
THEORY-1114 claims that metacontrast fixes which self-category is salient and that salience depersonalizes self-perception. The abstract reports a measured fit-to-depersonalization path in the field. A reading should check whether the frame was varied or only measured, and whether the author stands outside the theory’s originating group, as THEORY-1114’s promote_when requires. CLAIM-493 concerns fanbases set against an outside party. The first study’s football fans make it the nearest field sample the record has for that claim. Whether it measures which members become more prototypical is not said in the abstract.