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The psychology of social class: How socioeconomic status impacts thought, feelings, and behaviour Open
Drawing on recent research on the psychology of social class, I argue that the material conditions in which people grow up and live have a lasting impact on their personal and social identities and that this influences both the way they th…
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Identity Under Construction: How Individuals Come to Define Themselves in Organizations Open
Individuals need a situated identity, or a clear sense of “who they are” in their local context, to function. Drawing largely on interpretivist research, we describe the process of identity construction in organizations. Organizations set …
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A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Insights and Opportunities Open
Environmental challenges are often marked by an intergroup dimension. Political conservatives and progressives are divided on their beliefs about climate change, farmers come into conflict with scientists and environmentalists over water a…
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Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders Open
In this paper, we examine when members of underrepresented groups choose to support each other, using the context of the funding of female founders via donation-based crowdfunding. Building on theories of choice homophily, we develop the c…
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Survey Self-Reports? Identity as a Cause of Measurement Bias Open
Explanations of error in survey self-reports have focused on social desirability: that respondents answer questions about normative behavior to appear prosocial to interviewers. However, this paradigm fails to explain why bias occurs even …
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Social Identity Map: A Reflexivity Tool for Practicing Explicit Positionality in Critical Qualitative Research Open
The way that we as researchers view and interpret our social worlds is impacted by where, when, and how we are socially located and in what society. The position from which we see the world around us impacts our research interests, how we …
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A Cross-Cutting Calm Open
Although anecdotal stories of political anger and enthusiasm appear to be provoked largely by issues such as gay marriage or healthcare reform, social sorting is capable of playing a powerful role in driving anger and enthusiasm, undercutt…
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State Authenticity as Fit to Environment: The Implications of Social Identity for Fit, Authenticity, and Self-Segregation Open
People seek out situations that “fit,” but the concept of fit is not well understood. We introduce S tate A uthenticity as F it to the E nvironment (SAFE), a conceptual framework for understanding how social identities motivate the situati…
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Social Identity Theory Open
According to social identity theory, people derive part of their identity – their social identity – from the groups to which they belong (e.g., an identity as “student,” “woman,” “left-hander,” or “Barcelona supporter”). Social identities …
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Identity Formation in Adolescence: The Dynamic of Forming and Consolidating Identity Commitments Open
The biological, cognitive, and social changes that occur in adolescence stimulate young people to think about themselves, reflect on the kind of people they want to become, and find their place in society. Traditionally, these changes have…
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Social Influence and Group Identity Open
This chapter reviews research on the group identity explanation of social influence, grounded in self-categorization theory, and contrasts it with other group-based explanations, including normative influence, interdependence, and social n…
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Facilitating Collective Psychosocial Resilience in the Public in Emergencies: Twelve Recommendations Based on the Social Identity Approach Open
Accumulated evidence demonstrates the centrality of social psychology to the behavior of members of the public as immediate responders in emergencies. Such public behavior is a function of social psychological processes-in particular ident…
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Academic and non-academic predictors of student psychological distress: the role of social identity and loneliness Open
The study highlights the benefits of establishing strong social connections at university and the importance of minimising stress associated with assessment tasks.
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A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations Open
Firms use reference points to evaluate financial performance, frame gain or loss positions, and guide strategic behavior. However, there is little theoretical underpinning to explain how social performance is evaluated and integrated into …
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Leader–member exchange (LMX) differentiation and work outcomes: Conceptual clarification and critical review Open
Summary According to leader–member exchange (LMX) theory, leaders develop different quality relationships with followers in their team (termed LMX differentiation). An important theoretical question concerns how different LMX relationships…
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Toward a comprehensive and potentially cross-cultural model of why people engage in collective action: A quantitative research synthesis of four motivations and structural constraints. Open
Sociopsychological theorizing and research on collective action (e.g., social protests) has mushroomed over the last decade, studying a wide variety of groups, contexts, and cultures. Through a quantitative research synthesis of four motiv…
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Integrating who “we” are with what “we” (will not) stand for: A further extension of the <i>Social Identity Model of Collective Action</i> Open
Collective action refers to any action that individuals undertake as group members to pursue group goals such as social change. In this chapter, we further extend the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA) by including not just…
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Food, culture, and identity in multicultural societies: Insights from Singapore Open
The choice of food practices can be influenced by one's identity in many societies, but has mostly been evaluated in light of the maintenance of cultural identity in migrant populations. This study focused on understanding the influence of…
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How “Us” and “Them” Relates to Voting Behavior—Social Structure, Social Identities, and Electoral Choice Open
The last decades have seen the emergence of a divide pitting the new left against the far right in advanced democracies. We study how this universalism-particularism divide is crystallizing into a full-blown cleavage, complete with structu…
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Infants possess an abstract expectation of ingroup support Open
Significance We examined whether one mechanism contributing to ingroup favoritism might be an abstract and early-emerging sociomoral expectation of ingroup support. In violation-of-expectation experiments, 17-mo-old infants first watched t…
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The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses Open
Research in clinical psychology and social psychiatry has highlighted the importance of social factors for outcomes following trauma. In this review, we speak to this issue in two ways. First, we highlight the value of a social identity fr…
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Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality Open
This research advances a social identity approach to leadership through a meta-analysis examining four novel hypotheses that clarify the nature and impact of leader group prototypicality (the extent to which a leader is perceived to embody…
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The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences Open
Willingness to lay down one’s life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social psychology, we develop a mathematical model showing how conditi…
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Entrepreneurs’ social identity and the preference of causal and effectual behaviours in start-up processes Open
This paper examines how the social identity of an entrepreneur influences his or her behaviour when engaged in new venture formation. Building on the typology of entrepreneurial identities developed by Fauchart and Gruber, this study exami…
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Parochial trust and cooperation across 17 societies Open
Significance In a study including 17 societies, we found that people are motivated to trust and cooperate more with their ingroup, than harm the outgroup. Reputation-based indirect reciprocity may offset this ingroup favoritism, because we…
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Energizing through Visuals: How Social Entrepreneurs Use Emotion-Symbolic Work for Social Change Open
We know little about how social entrepreneurs try to induce enactment of their cause, especially when this cause is difficult to embrace. Through a longitudinal study, we analyze how anti-plastic pollution social entrepreneurs use multimod…
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Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory Open
Research summary Entrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality a…
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Life Change, Social Identity, and Health Open
Life change affects health. Research aimed at understanding the consequences of life change has primarily focused on the important roles played by stress, social support, individual differences, and broader socioeconomic factors in shaping…
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Identity, Beliefs, and Political Conflict Open
We present a theory of identity politics that builds on two ideas. First, when policy conflict renders a certain social divide—economic or cultural—salient, a voter identifies with her economic or cultural group. Second, the voter slants h…
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Social Identity, Group Behavior, and Teams Open
The issue of one's identity has loomed large recently and has unfortunately been used more and more as a wedge to separate subgroups. It is important to understand the ramifications of identity, both to limit the negative consequences (suc…