İç Grubu Kayırma ile İç ve Dış Gruba Eşit Davranmanın Nedensel Atıfları
Attributions of In-Group Favoritism and Equal Allocation Between In and Out-Group

Summary/Abstract: People may favor and evaluate their in-group members more positively due to raise their self-esteem and protect their advantageous social positions. Both personal attitudes toward in and out-group members and historical background about intergroup relations are actively used during this behavior which is called in-group favoritism; thus, different attributions appear when evaluating in and out-group members. But in-group favoritism is generally discussed as a dependent variable and it is examined that what are the mediator and moderator variables of the effect of various independent variables on the in-group bias. The current study, however, aims to describe those causal attributions of in-group favoritism or allocating equal resource to in and out-group. Therefore, it is asked participants who are Turkish or Kurdish to allocate a sum of resource between Turkish and Kurdish in the context of the social turmoil on which both sides are responsible. Then, participants were asked to write the reasons behind the resource allocation decisions as open-ended. The contents of the answers were examined in the context of thematic analysis. Participants who give an equal share to their in and out-group attribute to five reasons: (1) Equality and justice against discrimination, (2) Being human, (3) Equal need, (4), Avoiding the conflict, and (5) Recategorization of groups. Meanwhile in participants who give greater amount of resource to their in-group (i.e., in-group favoristic group members) attribute to four reasons: (1) Similarity, (2) Affirming in-group, (3) Negation out-group, and (4) needs. Interrater consistency (Cohen's κ) for tematic codes are between .65 and .92. The rates of use of these themes by Turkish and Kurdish participants and the differences between them are discussed within the scope of Social Identity Theory.

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