Across three experiments, these groups were seen as more threatening than internal allies, and sometimes even more competitive than ideological opponents by members of dominant subgroups.
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Specifically, we investigated how dominant subgroup members react to “supplanting” subgroups—ideologically distinct newcomers gaining public recognition.
New paper in the International Review of Social Psychology! 👀
Following our qualitative study on conflicts within the French-speaking Belgian feminist movement (lnkd.in/gxQEVWRN), Laurent Licata and I wanted to experimentally investigate intergroup conflicts within social movements.
Why? Because supplanting subgroups challenge who gets to define the movement. Our findings reveal that symbolic threat and competition over prototypicality are drivers of internal conflict—suggesting that not all in-group tensions are about goals or values, but about who gets to define the movement.
[OUT] 'Allies or Rivals? The Consequences of Ideological Distinctiveness and Social Recognition of Emergent Subgroups Within Social Movements', new paper by @paulinegrippa.bsky.social, postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) in European Journal of Social Psychology
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Conflictual dynamics within social movements are an important factor impeding social change. These conflicts may be explained by the negative reactions of members of dominant subgroups within these m....
