Circumplex Scales of Intergroup Goals (CSIG)

Thank you for your interest in the Circumplex Scales of Intergroup Goals (CSIG). Below are links to helpful resources, but if you have questions about the CSIG please contact me at klocke@uidaho.edu.

Locke, K. D. (2014). Circumplex Scales of Intergroup Goals: An interpersonal circle model of goals for interactions between groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 433-449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213514280

CSIG Items, Forms, and Scoring Programs

• CSIG Form
• CSIG Items & Scales
• CSIG Scoring using R or SPSS

Examples of Studies Using the CSIG

• Locke, K. D., & Heller, S. (2017). Communal and agentic interpersonal and intergroup motives predict preferences for status versus power. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 71–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216675333
• Frisch, L. K., Kneer, M., Krueger, J. I., & Ullrich, J. (2020). The effect of outcome severity on moral judgment and interpersonal goals of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 1158–1171. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2805
• SimanTov-Nachlieli, I., Shnabel, N., Aydin, A. L., & Ullrich, J. (2018). Agents of prosociality: Agency affirmation promotes mutual prosocial tendencies and behavior among conflicting groups. Political Psychology, 39, 445–463. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12418
• Aydin, A. L., Ullrich, J., Siem, B., Locke, K. D., & Shnabel, N. (2019a). The effect of social class on agency and communion: Reconciling identity-based and rank-based perspectives. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 735–745. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618785162
• Aydin, A. L., Ullrich, J., Siem, B., Locke, K. D., & Shnabel, N. (2019b). Agentic and communal interaction goals in conflictual intergroup relations. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.746