Crab mentality: Difference between revisions

'''Crab mentality''', also known as '''crab theory''',<ref>{{Cite web|title=Deaf Enterprise - Crab Theory|url=https://www.deafenterprise.eu/index.php/component/zoo/item/crab-theory|access-date=2020-11-04|website=www.deafenterprise.eu}}{{self-published inline|date=March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Mae Lentz|first=Ella|date=2006|title=The Crab Theory Revisited|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iy-g3fXNWA|access-date=November 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Henry |first1=Elizabeth |title=FAQ: Crab Theory |url=https://libguides.gallaudet.edu/crab-theory |website=LibGuides }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Aversion to the invention of new signs in American Sign Language (ASL)|url=https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/invention-of-signs-aversion-to.htm|access-date=2020-11-04|website=www.lifeprint.com}}{{rs|date=March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |lang=en |last=Adams |first=Frank Patrick |date=December 2019 |title=Does the Crab Theory Hold Water? Investigating Intragroup Discriminatory Attitudes within the Deaf Community |publisher=Gallaudet University |url=http://frankpadams.com/upload/97152/documents/4F2720A3AF8D3329.pdf |oclc=1226710162 }}</ref>{{citation overkill|date=March 2021}} '''crabs in a bucket''' (also '''barrel''', '''basket''', or '''pot''') '''mentality''', or the '''crab-bucket effect''',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Soubhari |first1=Mr Tushar |last2=Kumar |first2=Dr Yathish |title='The CRAB - Bucket Effect and Its Impact on Job Stress' – An Exploratory Study With Reference To Autonomous Colleges |journal=International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication |date=31 October 2014 |volume=2 |issue=10 |pages=3022–3027 |doi=10.17762/ijritcc.v2i10.3342 |doi-broken-date=2021-03-28 |url=https://ijritcc.org/index.php/ijritcc/article/view/3342 }}</ref> is a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither can you".<ref>{{cite book|author=L. Douglas Wilder|title=Son of Virginia: A Life in America's Political Arena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dMZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185|date=October 1, 2015|publisher=[[Lyons Press]]|isbn=978-1-4930-1952-6|page=185|author-link=Douglas Wilder}}</ref> The metaphor is derived from a pattern of behavior noted in [[crabs]] when they are trapped in a bucket. While any one crab could easily escape,<ref>{{cite book|author=Low Robin Boon Peng|title=Good Intentions Are Not Enough: Why We Fail At Helping Others|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmltDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA104|year=2016|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-320-059-3|page=104}}</ref> its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/capturing-indian-crab-behaviour/article4570414.ece|title=Capturing Indian 'Crab' Behaviour|author=Sudipta Sarangi|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=April 1, 2013|access-date=December 1, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |first1=Carliss D. |title=A Phenomenological Analysis of the Crabs in the Barrel Syndrome |journal=Academy of Management Proceedings |date=January 2015 |volume=2015 |issue=1 |pages=13710 |doi=10.5465/AMBPP.2015.13710abstract }}</ref>