Relationship between in-group and out-group evaluations : can the type of audience and individual mobility affect it?

• Main Author: Chin, Zhen Hui.
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/16617
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines how individual mobility and one’s audience can affect the relationship between in-group and out-group evaluations. In-group and out-group evaluations were obtained through essays from Singaporean undergraduates randomly assigned to four conditions (easy to leave, in-group audience; difficult to leave, in-group audience; easy to leave, out-group audience; difficult to leave, out-group audience). Through multiple regression analysis (n=114), a negative relationship was found between in-group and out-group evaluations when high-identifiers were communicating to an out-group audience and when low-identifiers were communicating to an in-group audience. A positive relationship was found for high-identifiers who were communicating to an in-group and low-identifiers who were communicating to an out-group audience. Individual mobility was found to have no effect on the relationship.