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Group-based meta-emotion and emotion responses to intergroup threat
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. (DGEā1144085).In a secularizing world, religious groups are increasingly threatened by antiāreligious groups. We present two studies investigating religious peoplesā responses to antiāreligious threats. We expected intergroup threats to shape groupābased emotions and behavioural intentions through a novel pathway whereby threat affects groupābased metaāemotions: the ingroupās perception of the outgroupās emotions towards the ingroup. In Study 1, we experimentally manipulated threat and group salience with participants from two different cultures (British and Latinx/Hispanic). Study 1 demonstrated nonāinteractive effects of threat increasing negative emotional responses and of group salience strengthening emotional responses. The results illustrated the role of groupābased metaāemotions in predicting outgroupādirected emotions and behavioural response intentions. Study 2 used a different manipulation of threat in an American sample and an identityābased manipulation of salience to assess the impact of realāworld antiāreligious campaigns involving symbolic and realistic threats. Both threat types increased negative groupābased metaāemotions, negative outgroupādirected emotions, desire to respond, and opposition to the antiāreligious campaign compared to no threat. Overall, religious identity salience had little impact on outcomes. The indirect pathway through metaāemotion replicated, suggesting the importance of considering this novel metaāemotion pathway in intergroup relations.PostprintPeer reviewe