Social contagion of ethnic hostility

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F18%3A10375184" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/18:10375184 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985998:_____/18:00490143

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720317115" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720317115</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720317115" target="_blank" >10.1073/pnas.1720317115</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social contagion of ethnic hostility

Original language description

Interethnic conflicts often escalate rapidly. Why does the behavior of masses easily change from cooperation to aggression? This paper provides an experimental test of whether ethnic hostility is contagious. Using incentivized tasks, we measured willingness to sacrifice one&apos;s own resources to harm others among adolescents from a region with a history of animosities toward the Roma people, the largest ethnic minority in Europe. To identify the influence of peers, subjects made choices after observing either destructive or peaceful behavior of peers in the same task. We found that susceptibility to follow destructive behavior more than doubled when harm was targeted against Roma rather than against coethnics. When peers were peaceful, subjects did not discriminate. We observed very similar patterns in a norms-elicitation experiment: destructive behavior toward Roma was not generally rated as more socially appropriate than when directed at coethnics, but the ratings were more sensitive to social contexts. The findings may illuminate why ethnic hostilities can spread quickly, even in societies with few visible signs of interethnic hatred.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50201 - Economic Theory

Project

<a href="/en/project/GBP402%2F12%2FG130" target="_blank" >GBP402/12/G130: The relationships between skills, schooling and labor market outcomes: A longitudinal study</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

ISSN

0027-8424

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

115

Issue of the periodical within the volume

19

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

4881-4886

UT code for WoS article

000431639100046

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85046657463