Social Identity and Social Comparison

By M. Hogg. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Comparisons at Work as Related to a Cooperative Social Climate and to Individual Differences in Social Comparison Orientation (2005, background): “These findings are largely in line with the predictions, and suggest that in teams perceived as cooperative, the fate of other group members is experienced as something that is directly relevant to oneself (e.g. Cialdini et al., 1976; Hogg, 2000; Tajfel & Turner, 1986; Tesser, 1988).”
A Social Comparison Account of Gossip (2004, background): “Indeed, the more people feel that they understand the prototype of their group (what a member of their group is like), the closer they feel to that group (Hogg, 2000).”
Subjective Uncertainty Reduction through Self-categorization: A Motivational Theory of Social Identity Processes (2000, background): “Social comparison is central to social identity theory (Hogg, 2000a; Turner, 1975), but Tajfel (1972, 1974, 1978) extended Festinger’s early social comparison ideas in three important ways.”
A Social Context Model of Envy and Social Undermining (2012, background): “, through friendship networks), common experience and empirical research suggest that favorable social comparison information gives people pleasure, but unfavorable information can focus their attention on what they lack relative to their colleagues (Hogg, 2000).”
Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions (2008, background): “In short, “Social harmony is most likely to be achieved by maintaining, not weakening, subgroup [lower order] identities, provided they are nested within a coherent superordinate identity” (Hornsey & Hogg, 2000: 143).”
Leader group prototypicality and leadership effectiveness: The moderating role of need for cognitive closure (2005, background): “Hogg and colleagues (Grieve & Hogg, 1995; Hogg, 2000; Mullin & Hogg, 1998) have shown that a desire to reduce uncertainty leads people to turn to their group memberships, because the shared social reality provided by group memberships (i.”
The Social Identity Perspective (2004, background): “Collective self-conception (social identity) is thus anchored in valence-sensitive social comparisons that strive for similarity within groups and differentiation between groups (Hogg, 2000a).”
A Social Identity Theory of Leadership (2001, background): “Jetten, J., Hogg, M. A., & Mullin, B.-A. (2000).”