Social identity and self-categorization

By Dominic Abrams, M. Hogg. 2013

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Self-uncertainty and Support for Autocratic Leadership (2013, background): “…and social interactive processes specified by social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987; see Abrams & Hogg, 2010, for a recent overview) the social identity theory of leadership argues that when people identify strongly with a group they base…”
Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors (2015, background): “Ample research shows that a person’s group membership strongly influences their attitudes, feelings, and behaviors (Abrams & Hogg, 2010).”
Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “Social identity theory is a social cognitive theory of group processes, intergroup relations, and collective self-conception (e.g., Tajfel & Turner, 1979; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987; also see Abrams & Hogg, 2010; Hogg, 2006; Hogg & Abrams, 1988).”
The skill paradox: explaining and reducing employment discrimination against skilled immigrants (2015, background): “Central to SIT is the notion of the social self (or group self; Ellemers, 2012), according to which individuals define in part who they are through their membership in social groups (for recent reviews of SIT, see Abrams & Hogg, 2010; Ellemers & Haslam, 2011).”
Social identity: The role of self in group processes and intergroup relations (2017, background): “We focus on and document just some of what we consider to be the most significant conceptual developments and extensions that have been made, over the past 20 years, to social identity theory broadly defined (also see Abrams & Hogg, 2010; Hogg, 2016).”
From Uncertainty to Extremism (2014, background): “This proposal rests on social-identity theory’s account of how social categorization of oneself and others underpins group identification and generates group and intergroup behaviors (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987; also see Abrams & Hogg, 2010).”
Evaluation of and support for group prototypical leaders: a meta-analysis of twenty years of empirical research (2017, background): “…theory of leadership Drawing on social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986; Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987; for overview see Abrams & Hogg, 2010) the key premise of the social identity theory of leadership is that we look to our leaders to define our group’s identity and…”