Recent studies examining the impact of new forms of extremely inclusive superordinate identities (i.e., categories that any person may consider oneself a member; e.g. identification with humans) showed, both positive (e.g., reduce global inequality; intergroup empathy and help) and negative effects (e.g. ingroup projection; less collective action). Most of these studies, however, relied on a variety of labels to assess the impact of these extremely inclusive identities (e.g., humans; global citizens). We propose that different labels can activate different identity contents and used a prototype analysis approach to examine if different extremely inclusive identities activate similar or different sets of attributes. 249 Portuguese participants’ generated descriptions of 1 out of 6 identity labels: “All humans everywhere”, “People all over the world”, “People from different countries around the world”, “Global citizens”, “Citizens of the world” and “Members of world community”. Preliminary results of 168 coded attributes supported our hypothesis of different prototypical structures, revealing significant differences between the proportion of participants that mentioned each attribute across conditions. Thus, we propose that a conceptual difference between all-inclusive labels (e.g., humans everywhere) and globally-oriented labels (e.g., citizen of the world; global citizen), can contribute to a better understanding of the ambiguous effects of extremely inclusive identities.

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Intergroup relations,Inclusive identities,Prototype analysis

Prémio de Melhor Comunicação Oral