Threat and parochialism in intergroup relations: lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Georgia.

ABSTRACT: Competition between groups is widely considered to foster cooperation within groups. Evidence from laboratory experiments hints at the existence of a proximate mechanism by which humans increase their level of cooperation with their ingroup when faced with an external threat. Further work suggests that ingroup cooperation should go along with aggressive behaviour towards the outgroup, although these theories are at odds with others that see high investments in outgroup relations as important means of stabilizing intergroup relations. Surprisingly, few of these arguments have been tested in the field, and existing studies are also limited by the lack of a direct measure of threat perception and aggressive behaviour. This study presents lab-in-the-field results from a rural context where exp

SUBMITTER: Schaub M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5666098 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature