Self-Uncertainty, Social Identity, and the Solace of Extremism

Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-35

  Hogg, Michael A ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group identification; Group prototype; High entitativity groups; Postmodern paradox; Self categorization; Self uncertainty; Social identity; Solace of extremism; Symbolic communication; Uncertainty identity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857142806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444344073.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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