Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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948849 | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Two studies demonstrate that members of high-status groups (i.e., men and students of business administration) but not members of low-status groups (i.e., women and education students) react with an increase in state self-esteem after an alleged poor performance on a fictitious intelligence test. This Failure-as-an-Asset (FA) effect is only observed when the high-status ingroup (i.e., men) is outperformed by a low-status outgroup (i.e., women). In this case, a poor performance will lead to a strong identification with the ingroup due to high ingroup prototypicality. As predicted, the effects of experiencing success or failure on self-esteem were mediated by identification with the ingroup.
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Authors
Marc-André Reinhard, Dagmar Stahlberg, Matthias Messner,