Abstract
White Americans who participate in the Black Lives Matter movement, men who attended the Women’s March, and people from the Global North who work to reduce poverty in the Global South – advantaged group members (sometimes referred to as allies) often engage inaction for disadvantaged groups. Tensions can arise, however, over the inclusion of advantaged group members in these movements, which we argue can partly be explained by their motivations to participate. We propose that advantaged group members can be motivated to participate in these movements 1) to improve the status of the disadvantaged group, 2) on the condition that the status of their own group is maintained, 3) to meet their own personal needs, and 4) because this behavior aligns with their moral beliefs. We identify potential antecedents and behavioral outcomes associated with these motivations before describing the theoretical contribution our paper makes to the psychological literature.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Personality and Social Psychology Review |
Early online date | 11 May 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 11 May 2020 |
Keywords
- social change
- allies
- motivations
- collective action
- protest
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Helena Radke
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Lecturer in Social Psychology
- Edinburgh Neuroscience
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