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Defensive helping is a concept in social psychology that describes where a member of an ingroup proffers help to an outgroup member in order to reduce the threat the outgroup poses to the ingroup.[1] This concept stems from research exploring social identity threats (a part of social identity theory) and motivations for helping behaviour.[1] Defensive helping is concerned specifically with the relative status threat. This is where the perceived advantage of the ingroup over the outgroup is threatened by the outgroup. By providing defensive help to the outgroup, the ingroup is able to restore its positive distinctiveness which reduces or removes the relative status threat. Positive self-regard is the original proposed motivation for defence help although research has also explored the biological basis of this behaviour.[1][2][3] Researchers have also investigated defensive help as a social dominance method.[4][5] Defensive help is a unique form of helping behaviour.[1] Most notably, def

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