When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion.

By W. Swann, Jolanda Jetten, Á. Gómez, Harvey Whitehouse, Brock Bastian. Psychology Review, 2012

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “2010), and more supportive of extreme behavior that will benefit the group (Gomez et al. 2011; Swann et al. 2012).”
When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid (2015, background): “Exploring such questions will be key for developing a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between local and extended fusion (Swann et al., 2012).”
Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members☆ (2016, background): “Identity fused individuals experience a social identity becoming an essential component of one’s personal self concept (Swann et al., 2012) and group identified individuals share prototypical features with in-group members, non-essential to personal identities (Gómez et al., 2011).”
Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership (2020, background): “Where people’s sense of self is effectively grounded in a single social identity that saturates the self-concept (cf. identity-fusion – Swann et al., 2012), they are anxious to identify and belong and have a yearning for leadership to help defend against or resolve uncertainty and make them feel…”
Working While Liberal/Conservative: A Review of Political Ideology in Organizations (2020, background): “Overall, such approaches may help the employee have an identity more strongly fused with that of the organization than one’s political ideology (Swann et al., 2012).”
Nothing Can Tear Us Apart: The Effect of Brand Identity Fusion in Consumer–Brand Relationships (2014, background): “These prorelationship behaviors will then help reaffirm the identities that have been challenged and shore up feelings of brand identity fusion (Swann et al., 2012).”