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%T When failing feels good - relative prototypicality for a high-status group can counteract ego-threat after individual failure %A Reinhard, Marc-André %A Stahlberg, Dagmar %A Messner, Matthias %J Journal of Experimental Social Psychology %N 4 %P 788–795 %V 45 %D 2009 %K social identity; relative prototypicality; self-esteem; success and failure; low and high status groups; self-protection %= 2012-05-10T10:36:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-293390 %X Two studies demonstrate that members of high-status groups (i.e., men and students of business administration) but not members of low-status groups (i.e., women and education students) react with an increase in state self-esteem after an alleged poor performance on a fictitious intelligence test. This Failure-as-an-Asset (FA) effect is only observed when the high-status ingroup (i.e., men) is outperformed by a low-status outgroup (i.e., women). In this case, a poor performance will lead to a strong identification with the ingroup due to high ingroup prototypicality. As predicted, the effects of experiencing success or failure on self-esteem were mediated by identification with the ingroup. %C NLD %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info