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Social Identity Theory

open access: yesThe International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology, 2016
Social identity theory is an interactionist social psychological theory of the role of self-conception and associated cognitive processes and social beliefs in group processes and intergroup relations. Originally introduced in the 1970s primarily as an account of intergroup relations, it was significantly developed at the start of the 1980s as a ...
M. Hogg
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Optimal experience and optimal identity: A multinational study of the associations between flow and social identity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Eudaimonistic identity theory posits a link between activity and identity, where a self-defining activity promotes the strength of a person’s identity.
Yanhui eMao   +4 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Social Identity Theory and Public Opinion towards Immigration

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
Several scholars have called upon social identity theory to investigate the relationship between an American national identity and American public opinion on immigration.
Maruice Mangum, Ray Block
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A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Insights and Opportunities

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
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 allocation or ...
Kelly S Fielding, Matthew J Hornsey
exaly   +3 more sources

Social Identity Theory and the Authoritarian Personality Theory in South Africa

open access: greenSouth African Journal of Psychology, 2003
Social identity theory assumes that individuals and collectives apply identity management strategies in order to cope with threatened social identities. It is argued here that an integration of social identity theory and the authoritarian personality theory may help to investigate identity management strategies for minority and majority groups. It was
Ulrike Niens   +4 more
openalex   +5 more sources

Social Identity Complexity Theory as heuristic tool in New Testament Studies

open access: goldHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
In this article the author gives an overview of a relatively new theory in social psychology, namely Social Identity Complexity Theory, and illustrates the heuristic value of the theory for New Testament interpretation.
Jacobus (Kobus) Kok
doaj   +3 more sources

Social identity theory and the family business

open access: yes, 2015
Social identity theory has given one of the most compelling answers to the question ‘who am I’ by linking identity to membership in social groups. After its adoption to organisational studies, where it has been used to understand, explain and forecast group behaviour, social identity theory has recently been adapted to family business research.
Matthias Waldkirch
openaire   +5 more sources

Social Identity Theory for Investigating Islamic Extremism in the Diaspora

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2013
An overview of literature on radicalization in the Muslim diaspora in Europe finds identity crises to be a key precipitant to the process. Studies also typically focus on the manipulation of identify by violent Islamic extremist groups.
Dina Al Raffie
doaj   +2 more sources

A Foreign People: Towards a Holistic Identity Theory within a Christian Context

open access: yesReligions, 2023
In this contribution, the identity theory is reconsidered in respect to its epistemology. The social identity theory (SIT) and social identity complexity theory (SICT) are both instruments of social sciences based on naturalistic assumptions.
Philip La Grange Du Toit
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