Moved by Social Justice: The Role of Kama Muta in Collective Action Toward Racial Equality.

ABSTRACT: Participation in collective action is known to be driven by two appraisals of a social situation: Beliefs that the situation is unfair (injustice appraisal) and beliefs that a group can change the situation (collective efficacy appraisal). Anger has been repeatedly found to mediate the relationship between injustice appraisals and collective action. Recent work suggests that the emotion of being moved mediates the relationship between efficacy appraisals and collective action. Building on this prior work, the present research applies kama muta theory to further investigate the relationship between efficacy appraisals and collective action. Kama muta is a positive emotion that is evoked by a sudden intensification of communal sharing, and largely overlaps with the English concept being move

SUBMITTER: Lizarazo Pereira DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921536 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature