Victims’ Reactions to the Interpersonal Threat to Public Identity Posed by Copycats
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Reysen, Stephen
Puryear, Curtis
Abstract / Description
Interpersonal threats to public identity consist of situations where another person intentionally attempts to illegitimately undermine one’s ability to display a valued and distinctive public identity. In three studies, we examined victims’ reactions to copycatting as an interpersonal threat to public identity to test each component of this definition. In Study, participants expressed the greatest degree of anger when the copying was illegitimate and intentional. In Study 2, participants expressed a greater degree of anger to copying of an important (vs. unimportant) characteristic. In Study 3, we manipulated the number of identity characteristics copied. A structural model showed that as the number of copied characteristics increased, participants’ perception of the situation as illegitimate and the copying as intentional predicted a threat to one’s freedom, which in turn predicted felt reactance predicting an unfavorable impression and a desire to confront the copycat. Together, the results support the definition of interpersonal threats to public identity and copycatting as such a situation.
Keyword(s)
copycat identity reactance anger intention illegitimacyPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2014-06-27
Journal title
Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Volume
8
Issue
1
Page numbers
100–114
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
Publication status
publishedVersion
Review status
peerReviewed
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Citation
Reysen, S., & Puryear, C. (2014). Victims’ Reactions to the Interpersonal Threat to Public Identity Posed by Copycats. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 8(1), 100–114. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v8i1.142
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Reysen, Stephen
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Puryear, Curtis
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Date of first publication2014-06-27
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Abstract / DescriptionInterpersonal threats to public identity consist of situations where another person intentionally attempts to illegitimately undermine one’s ability to display a valued and distinctive public identity. In three studies, we examined victims’ reactions to copycatting as an interpersonal threat to public identity to test each component of this definition. In Study, participants expressed the greatest degree of anger when the copying was illegitimate and intentional. In Study 2, participants expressed a greater degree of anger to copying of an important (vs. unimportant) characteristic. In Study 3, we manipulated the number of identity characteristics copied. A structural model showed that as the number of copied characteristics increased, participants’ perception of the situation as illegitimate and the copying as intentional predicted a threat to one’s freedom, which in turn predicted felt reactance predicting an unfavorable impression and a desire to confront the copycat. Together, the results support the definition of interpersonal threats to public identity and copycatting as such a situation.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationReysen, S., & Puryear, C. (2014). Victims’ Reactions to the Interpersonal Threat to Public Identity Posed by Copycats. Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, 8(1), 100–114. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v8i1.142en_US
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ISSN1981-6472
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1821
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.2187
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v8i1.142
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Keyword(s)copycaten_US
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Keyword(s)identityen_US
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Keyword(s)reactanceen_US
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Keyword(s)angeren_US
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Keyword(s)intentionen_US
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Keyword(s)illegitimacyen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleVictims’ Reactions to the Interpersonal Threat to Public Identity Posed by Copycatsen_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue1
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Journal titleInterpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
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Page numbers100–114
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Volume8
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Visible tag(s)Version of Record