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| Title |
Our Flaws Are More Human Than Yours
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1177/0146167211423777 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Peter Koval, Simon M. Laham, Nick Haslam, Brock Bastian, Jennifer A. Whelan |
| Abstract |
Four studies investigated whether people tend to see ingroup flaws as part of human nature (HN) to a greater degree than outgroup flaws. In Study 1, people preferentially ascribed high HN flaws to their ingroup relative to two outgroups. Study 2 demonstrated that flaws were rated higher on HN when attributed to the ingroup than when attributed to an outgroup, and no such difference occurred for positive traits. Study 3 replicated this humanizing ingroup flaws (HIF) effect and showed that it was (a) independent of desirability and (b) specific to the HN sense of humanness. Study 4 replicated the results of Study 3 and demonstrated that the HIF effect is amplified under ingroup identity threat. Together, these findings show that people humanize ingroup flaws and preferentially ascribe high HN flaws to the ingroup. These ingroup humanizing biases may serve a group-protective function by mitigating ingroup flaws as "only human." |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 1 | 8% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 9 | 69% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Brazil | 3 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Russia | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 83 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 27% |
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 18 | 19% |
| Unknown | 14 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 61 | 64% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 17 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2023.
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#1,453,668
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Outputs from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#857
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#6,401
of 142,181 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
#7
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,761,363 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,942 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 41.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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