On helping lower status out-groups: The nature of the help and the stability of the intergroup status hierarchy

Tutty, Emily; Platow, Michael

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On helping lower status out-groups: The nature of the help and the stability of the intergroup status hierarchy

Date

2007

Authors

Tutty, Emily

Platow, Michael

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The current research expanded upon previous theoretical and empirical arguments regarding the nature of intergroup helping. In doing so, we considered the role of relative in-group status, the stability of this status, and the type of help provided. In a