| | van Zomeren, M., d’Amore, C., Pauls, I. L., Shuman, E., & Leal, A. (2023). The Intergroup Value Protection Model: A Theoretically Integrative and Dynamic Approach to Intergroup Conflict Escalation in Democratic Societies. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10888683231192120. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10888683231192120 The 2021 Capitol Hill attack exemplifies a major “trigger event” for different groups to protect their values within a democratic society. Which specific perceptions generate such a triggering event, which value-protective responses does it trigger, and do such responses escalate intergroup conflict? We offer the intergroup value protection model to analyze intergroup conflict escalation in democratic societies. It predicts that when group members interpret another group’s actions as violating ingroup or shared values, this triggers the intergroup value protection process (e.g., increased ingroup identification, outrage, moralization, social protest). When such value-protective responses are visible to the outgroup, this can in turn constitute a trigger event for them to protect their values, thus increasing chances of intergroup conflict escalation. | |
