Aggressive and avoidant action tendencies towards out-groups: the distinct roles of in-group attachment vs. glorification and cognitive vs. affective ambivalence.

The current work argues that expressing out-group ambivalence based on cognitive information
is a strategy to justify one’s prejudice, which may ultimately “cover” the discriminatory nature of
out-group-directed negative action tendencies, depending on individuals’ in-group ‘attachment’
and ‘glorification’ levels. As expected, after expressing prejudice in a normative context inducing
prejudice suppression (a) high-glorification participants were more prone to out-group-directed
aggression, and (b) high-attachment participants were more prone to out-group-directed
avoidance, when such action tendencies were self-reported after the expression of ambivalent
beliefs but not emotions concerning the out-group.