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The present paper investigates a positive, other-oriented moral emotion: group-based gratitude, in reaction to intergroup positive interdependence or outgroup contributions to ingroup’s goals. Three studies support the notion that group-based gratitude plays a role in improving intergroup attitudes between natives and immigrants in the French context. In Study 1, positive intergroup interdependence was associated with group-based gratitude, which in turn was negatively associated with prejudicial attitudes and behavioral intentions. In the last two studies, highlighting historical outgroup contributions elicited group-based gratitude, which in turn reduced prejudice, increased perceived warmth and reciprocity (i.e., helping behavioral intentions), compared to control condition and positive condition. Links with indebtedness and common ingroup are discussed. Keywords: gratitude, group-based emotions, intergroup relations, interdependence How to Cite: Rambaud, S., Collange, J., Tavani, J. L., & Zenasni, F. (2021). Positive Intergroup Interdependence, Prejudice, Outgroup Stereotype and Helping Behaviors: The Role of Group-Based Gratitude. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1), 10. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.433 Handling Editor: Rosa Rodriguez-Bailon University of Granada, ES X close 516 Views 182 Downloads 2 Citations 7 Twitter   Published on 28 Apr 2021 Peer Reviewed  CC BY 4.0  Accepted on 27 Mar 2021            Submitted on 14 Apr 2020 France is one of Europe’s oldest countries of immigration (Weil, 2003). Since the middle of the nineteenth century, France has experienced three major periods of immigration: The Industrial Revolution, World War I and World War II. Nowadays, while 10% of its habitants are immigrants (Insee, 2020), only 14% of the French natives believe that immigration has had a positive impact in France (Ipsos, 2017). Yet immigrants have contributed to addressing several French needs, such as security or economic needs. For example, many Africans, Malagasy, Maghrebi and Asian soldiers from colonies enrolled in the French armies (some as volunteers) during both World Wars (Deroo & Champeaux, 2013). During World War II, they contributed to the Provence landings (Temime, 1991) and some of them, such as Addi Bâ, were engaged in the resistance against the Nazis (Guillermond, 2004). Immigration also sustained French economic needs when France faced a strong economic growth but lacked the necessary workforce due to the heavy human casualties of the World Wars (e.g., Noiriel, 1986; Tribalat, 1991). Today, the global impact of immigration on public finance remains positive (Chojnicki & Ragot, 2012). Finally, immigration contributed to the French culture. Besides its influence on arts and gastronomy, many figures in politics (e.g., Gambetta) or sciences (e.g., Marie Curie) are immigrants (Noiriel, 2001). Regarding such contributions, during the inauguration of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris in 2014, the former President of the French Republic, François Hollande, expressed a specific emotion on behalf of French people towards the immigrants who helped to liberate, build and enrich the country: an emotion of gratitude.

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