"If you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"social identity salience moderates support for retaliation in response to collective threat

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Quest for significance and violent extremism : the case of domestic radicalization (2017, background): “Similarly, there is evidence that when important social identities are threatened, people often react with aggression and are more likely to support revenge (Fischer et al., 2010).”
Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “Because behaviors depend to some degree on the social identity that is salient (Fisher et al., 2010), gang members are especially likely to act in accordance with the norms of their group (Hogg & Giles, 2012).”
The Cycle of Violence: Understanding Individual Participation in Collective Violence (2015, background): “In another study, threats to participants’ national or gender identity increased aggression and support for revenge when that group identity was made salient (Fischer et al., 2010).”
Feeling like a state: social emotion and identity (2014, background): “…that British women responded differently to photos of the 7 July 2005 London bombings depending on which identity the experimenter cued: feelings of aggression and support for war against terrorism was common when British identity was salient, but not when gender was salient (Fischer et al. 2010).”