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Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... Asch, 1955 ;  Milgram, 1963 ). We are very sensitive to group norms ( Turner, 1991 ), and fear social exclusion (e.g.,  ... of theory and research have shown that the individual self is not always primary, nor is it alone in the psychological universe. ... / more

Love at First Sight

... into six groups. Then, after cutting the pictures from each group in two, shuffling them, and placing them on a table, they invited a panel ... Ovid , Narcissus was an extraordinarily handsome but self-centered young man who spurned all his lovers. Finally, one of them cursed ... / more

The Double Edged Passion

... "those" -- every culture, pretty much, has had a different group in mind. But the singular fact of prejudice per se was as ... dumping on the Jewish girl seemed to cause people's self-esteem to recover from the humiliation of the impossible IQ test. The ... / more

From Heavens to Hells to Heroes

... and Stanford University, into a hell on earth for a group of college students that I imprisoned in a dramatic experiment, allow me ... also on retaining their personal sense of identity and self-worth, of not allowing others to de-individuate them or to de-humanize ... / more

High Maintenance Interaction

... I'd have to admit to always being part of that latter group. My strategy was to harass the biggest nerd on the subject with all of my ... coordination  on an interpersonal task can impair  self-regulation  on an individual level in an unrelated task. In other words, ... / more

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Why do people help strangers when disaster strikes?

... One such experience is collective violence, when a group is threatened or harmed by members of a different group (World Health ... that people have a built-in defense system geared towards self-preservation, and this defense system creates ways to counteract the ... / more

Being rational and emotional are not (necessarily) contradictions

... there isn’t a particularly good reason why rationality (or self-interest) can’t incorporate issues outside of material well-being. I ... maximizing income), but they may also help further moral, group- (as opposed to self-) related, or long-term agendas. For example, when ... / more

Inequality: Minority disadvantage or White privilege? - And why it matters

... changes the implications of inequality for one’s group. Brian Lowery and Rosalind Chow use the following an analogy: ... African Americans and Latinos reported that their sense of self was more connected to their academic performance. Feeling ... against them. If outcomes are biased against me and my group, why would I invest myself in academic achievement? However, White ... / more

Manipulating the body, measuring the body, and tinkering in the name of Psychology

... found that when a person is excluded socially from a group, their finger temperature drops somewhat. They used a very precise ... Schubert, T. W., & Koole, S. L. (2009). The embodied self: Making a fist enhances men’s power -related self-conceptions. ... / more