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Social Complexity, Threat, Ego Defenses, and Labeling the Other a Deviant

A 'Racial' Incident in the Development of a Small Group

Arthur Ferrari

Connecticut College

This article provides an examination of ego defense and their role in triggering people to lable another as deviant in a developing small group. Swanson's theory posits a relationship between the complexity of a social relationship and the complexity of ego defense when self and relationaship are threatened. Support was found for the purported relationship and showed that disparate levels of social interaction played a role in the decision to label(which in this study's instance was compounded by apparent racism).

Small Group Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, 538-553 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/1046496490214007
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