ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the people experience emotions on behalf of others as long as they see others as fellow ingroup members. Smith's appraisal model of intergroup emotions and concentrate on recent work devoted to the extended contact hypothesis and to the issue of collective guilt. The impact of self-other overlap has also been shown in the context of intergroup relations. In an intriguing set of studies, Cadinu and Rothbart relied on minimal group settings to provide evidence that ingroup favoritism is essentially a self-anchoring effect. Although the depersonalization process is a key assumption of self-categorization theory, the empirical evidence demonstrating the confusion between the characteristics typical of the self and those typical of the ingroup long remained mostly indirect. The cognitive appraisal then triggers a specific emotional experience which, in turn, promotes particular behavioral reactions.
