Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification

By M. Hogg, D. Sherman, Joel Dierselhuis, Angela T. Maitner, Graham Moffitt. 2007

449 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/64f8333149cfa991264caca9769ec1780484b40b

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In Social Psychology

1. M. Hogg
2. David E. Rast
3. S. Giessner
4. Kyle Nash
5. Andrea C. Morales
6. Howard Giles
7. T. Proulx
8. Liran Goldman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Hogg
2. David E. Rast
3. S. Giessner
4. Andrea C. Morales
5. Howard Giles
6. Liran Goldman
7. Ian M McGregor
8. Immo Fritsche

Citations in the corpus

• Self-uncertainty and Support for Autocratic Leadership (2013, methodology): “Previous studies have focused primarily on self-uncertainty-sponsored preference for highly entitative or extremist groups (e.g., Hogg, Meehan et al., 2010; Hogg et al., 2007), not on leadership.”
• Uncertain Self in a Changing World: A Foundation for Radicalisation, Populism, and Autocratic Leadership (2020, result): “(e.g. Hogg, Meehan et al., 2010; Hogg et al., 2007; Jung et al., 2016, 2018; Sherman et al., 2009; Wagoner et al., 2018; Wagoner & Hogg, 2016a).”
• Tough Love: How Communal Schemas and Contracting Practices Build Relational Capital in Entrepreneurial Teams (2009, background): “Hogg et al. (2007) found that when people are uncertain about how to act in a social situation,”
• The Dark Side of Scarcity Promotions: How Exposure to Limited-Quantity Promotions Can Induce Aggression (2016, background): “Specifically, feelings of affiliation with others are related to positive affect and subsequent behavior (Hogg et al. 2007).”
• Threat and defense: From anxiety to approach (2014, background): “As the basic finding, experimentally inducing mortality awareness (Castano & Dechesne, 2005; Greenberg et al., 1997), personal uncertainty (Hogg et al., 2007; McGregor et al., 2001; Van den Bos, 2009), a lack of personal control (Fritsche, Jonas, Ablasser, et al., 2013; Fritsche et al., 2008), or…”
• Going to extremes: Social identity and communication processes associated with gang membership (2014, background): “Tests of uncertainty-identity theory have shown that, under elevated self-related uncertainty, people prefer to identify with/identify more strongly with high than low entitativity groups (Hogg et al., 2010; Hogg et al., 2007; see also Hogg, 2007, 2012, in press).”