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esource underlying discrimination and the regulatory focus was. Finally, the evaluative bias was
higher when regulatory fit between ingroup power and regulatory focus was given (e.g. promotion
focus and higher power group).
3085.3 International collaboration under threat, Mark Dechesne 1 , Coen Van den Berg 2 , Sjo
Soeters 2 , 1 University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2 Royal Militairy Academy, The Netherlands
Current worlds’ events such as the 9/11 terror attacks and the war in Iraq urge for an understanding
of how threats of terror affect international collaboration. To examine this issue, Dutch military
personnel’s attitudes towards international cooperation were administered under threatening
(during the ISAF mission in Afghanistan) and non-threatening circumstances (in Europe).
Findings indicate that attitudes towards cooperation were significantly more negative in
Afghanistan, and concerns about death threat were found to play a mediating role. These findings
encompass a number of important implications for both social- psychological theorizing,
particularly for terror management theory, and policy.
3085.4 Singapore’s students’ preference of mediators in a peer mediation session, Vivien SL
Huan, Angeline Khoo, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Many studies have been conducted to show the positive outcomes of the peer mediation
programme in schools. Some of these positive effects include a significant decrease in the number
of conflicts among students, students obtaining better academic grades and an overall
improvement in school climate. So far, not much research has been done with regards to giving the
programme a theoretical perspective. This paper examines the peer mediation process from the
theoretical perspective of the social identity theory, looking at how the process of social
comparison influences the outcome of the mediation session, specifically in the Singapore context.
3086 ORAL
Social psychology
Chair: Jijia Zhang, China
3086.1 The influence of permeability of group boundaries on subordinates’ collective action and
group identification in a simulated international society, Yumiko Taresawa, Graduate school of
Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
This study investigated whether subordinates’ collective action contributed to the achievement of
positive group identity by using SIMINSOC (Hirose, 1997). Three hundreds and forty-four
undergraduates were randomly assigned to subordinate or dominant groups with either high or low
level of permeable boundaries. Approximately forty-three undergraduates participated in one game
and eight games were played. The result indicated that members of subordinate group with low
permeability acted collectively more frequently and identified with in-group more than members
of subordinate group with high permeability. Additionally, subordinates’ identification was weaker
than dominants’ identification at first, but disappeared difference at the end.
3086.2 Communication pattern with SMS: Short message service and MMS: Multimedia
message service as a trend of conduct of modern teenagers, Kurniawati Ngonde Sylvia 1 , Sutris
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