Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm
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Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm. / Columbus, Simon; Thielmann, Isabel; Böhm, Robert; Zettler, Ingo.
I: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Personality Correlates of Out-Group Harm
AU - Columbus, Simon
AU - Thielmann, Isabel
AU - Böhm, Robert
AU - Zettler, Ingo
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Motivated by theoretical accounts positing that participation in intergroup conflict is driven by a desire to promote the in-group, past studies have explored the link between prosocial personality dimensions and out-group harm. However, while dimensions such as Honesty-Humility predict in-group cooperation, they do not explain out-group harm. Across two incentivized experimental studies (one preregistered; overall N = 1,584), we show that out-group harm is uniquely associated with higher levels of the Dark Factor of Personality (D), a personality dimension capturing the core of all aversive personality characteristics. Conversely, high levels of D, alongside low levels of Honesty-Humility, are associated with less in-group cooperation. Our results show that in-group cooperation and out-group harm are associated with distinct personality dimensions.
AB - Motivated by theoretical accounts positing that participation in intergroup conflict is driven by a desire to promote the in-group, past studies have explored the link between prosocial personality dimensions and out-group harm. However, while dimensions such as Honesty-Humility predict in-group cooperation, they do not explain out-group harm. Across two incentivized experimental studies (one preregistered; overall N = 1,584), we show that out-group harm is uniquely associated with higher levels of the Dark Factor of Personality (D), a personality dimension capturing the core of all aversive personality characteristics. Conversely, high levels of D, alongside low levels of Honesty-Humility, are associated with less in-group cooperation. Our results show that in-group cooperation and out-group harm are associated with distinct personality dimensions.
KW - dark factor of personality
KW - HEXACO
KW - IPD-MD game
KW - out-group harm
KW - parochial altruism
U2 - 10.1177/19485506241254157
DO - 10.1177/19485506241254157
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85194573441
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
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