{"id":53,"date":"2018-04-27T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/?p=53"},"modified":"2018-04-27T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:07:32","slug":"in-groups-vs-out-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/2018\/04\/27\/in-groups-vs-out-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"In-groups vs. Out-groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To further understand possible motives for the emergence of initiation rituals within society, Christopher von Rueden and Mark van Vugt\u2019s article, <em>Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice<\/em>, presents an \u201cevolutionary perspective\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> as a guide. Their article expresses the belief that humans develop when faced with \u201cevolved decision rules \u2013 sometimes referred to as cognitive adaptations \u2013 that regulate our motivations and beliefs.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> These \u2018evolved decision rules\u2019 involve \u201cbehavioral changes in reproductive status, energetic status, social reputation, group structure, or inter group threats.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> When participating in initiation to specified elite groups, people are likely to experience these behavioral changes in order to gain acceptance. Thus, when people are put into situations where hazing occurs, they are less likely to be opposed to completing the tasks because of the fear that they will not be accepted by a particular group. This fear alone is a primary reason why hazing is an issue within society. The promotion of in-groups and out-groups creates the desire for acceptance and the willingness to go to great lengths to achieve approval.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Rueden, Christopher Von, and Mark Van Vugt. &#8220;Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice.&#8221; <em>The Leadership Quarterly <\/em>26, no. 6 (2015): 979. doi:10.1016\/j.leaqua.2015.10.004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Rueden, Christopher Von, and Mark Van Vugt. &#8220;Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice.&#8221; <em>The Leadership Quarterly <\/em>26, no. 6 (2015): 979.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Rueden, Christopher Von, and Mark Van Vugt. &#8220;Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice.&#8221; <em>The Leadership Quarterly <\/em>26, no. 6 (2015): 979<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To further understand possible motives for the emergence of initiation rituals within society, Christopher von Rueden and Mark van Vugt\u2019s article, Leadership in small-scale societies: Some implications for theory, research, and practice, presents an \u201cevolutionary perspective\u201d[1] as a guide. Their article expresses the belief that humans develop when faced with \u201cevolved decision rules \u2013 sometimes referred to as cognitive adaptations \u2013 that regulate our motivations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/2018\/04\/27\/in-groups-vs-out-groups\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In-groups vs. Out-groups<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3870,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-background"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst250-hurtfulhaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}