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Social Groups and Identities

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 8 p.m.

As social beings, we choose which group identities to assimilate with or invest in and which social groups we’re most loyal to. Therefore, the degree to which we identify with and protect certain identities varies. So, today, we’ll be talking all about our identities as individuals, why we seek social groups, and overall, the relationship between groups, individuals, and societies.


References 

Journal Articles:  

Brewer, M. B. (1991). The social self: On being the same and different at the same time. Personality and social psychology bulletin, 17(5), 475-482. 

Cheng, C., Cheung, S., Chio, J., & Chan, M. (2013). Cultural Meaning of Perceived Control :Meta-Analysis of Locus of Control and Psychological Symptoms Across 18 Cultural Regions. Psychological Bulletin, 139(1), 152-188. 

Earley, P. C., Gibson, C. B., & Chen, C. C. (1999). “How Did I Do?” versus “How Did We Do?”: Cultural Contrasts of Performance Feedback Use and Self-Efficacy. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 30(5), 594–619 

Ford, B. Q., Dmitrieva, J. O., Heller, D., Chentsova-Dutton, Y., Grossmann, I., Tamir, M., ... & Bokhan, T. (2015). Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(6), 1053. 

Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2012). Contesting the “nature” of conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show. PLoS Biol, 10(11), e1001426. 

Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation. Psychological Review, 98(2), 224-253. 

McCarty, John A., & Shrum, L.J. (2001). The Influence of Individualism, Collectivism, and Locus of Control on Environmental Beliefs and Behavior. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 20(1), 93-104. 

Mermelstein, R., Cohen, S., Lichtenstein, E., Baer, J. S., & Kamarck, T. (1986). Social support and smoking cessation and maintenance. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 54(4), 447. 

Reicher, S., & Haslam, S. A. (2006). Tyranny revisited. Psychologist, 19(3), 146-150.  

Reicher, S., Haslam, S. A., & Rath, R. (2008). Making a virtue of evil: A five‐step social identity model of the development of collective hate. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2(3), 1313-1344. 

Roberts, R. E., Phinney, J. S., Masse, L. C., Chen, Y. R., Roberts, C. R., & Romero, A. (1999). The structure of ethnic identity of young adolescents from diverse ethnocultural groups. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 19(3), 301-322. 

Sharma, Shridhar. (2014). Self, Identity and Culture. 10.1007/978-81-322-1587-5_10. 

Stead, L. F., Carroll, A. J., & Lancaster, T. (2017). Group behaviour therapy programmes for smoking cessation. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (3). 

Tyler, T. R., & Blader, S. L. (2001). Identity and cooperative behavior in groups. Group processes & intergroup relations, 4(3), 207-226. 

Books 

  • Mason, L. (2018). Uncivil agreement: How politics became our identity. University of Chicago Press. 

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