Where did inaction go? Towards a broader and more refined perspective on collective actions.

ABSTRACT: While injustice is widespread, collective action against it appears to be rare. This paper argues that this may be because research often focuses on a narrow range of outgroup-oriented actions, such as demonstrating, signing petitions, that are symbolic of a collective response to injustice. The present work takes a bottom-up approach to study a broad range of collective and individual actions that people undertake in response to collective injustice. Participants indicated actions they felt they could take (Study 1) and, via interviews, actually had taken (Study 2) in response to human-induced earthquakes. These studies revealed a broad range of actions, many of which are collective but ingroup- (e.g., helping ingroup members) rather than outgroup-oriented. Study 3 further conceptualized

SUBMITTER: Stroebe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6619099 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature