A license to speak up: Outgroup minorities and opinion expression

作者：Morrison Kimberly Rios^*

来源：Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2011, 47(4): 756-766.

DOI：10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.004

• Opinion expression
• Minorities
• Social identity
• Psychological standing
• Vested interest
• Diversity

Four studies examined the relationship between outgroup minority status, defined as both belonging to a different social category and holding a different opinion than other group members, and opinion expression. Specifically, it was hypothesized - and results confirmed - that outgroup minorities would be more willing to express their opinions on an issue when their social category membership granted them psychological standing (i.e., a subjective sense of entitlement to act) than when it did not. Implications for the roles of social category membership and psychological standing in opinion expression, and for how to encourage diverse viewpoints to emerge in group contexts, are discussed.

• 出版日期2011-7