When group membership gets personal: A theory of identity fusion

Psychological Review

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 441-456

  Swann, William B ^a   Jetten, Jolanda ^b   Gómez, Ãngel ^c   Whitehouse, Harvey ^d   Bastian, Brock ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group identification; Identity fusion; Personal identity; Self verification; Social identity

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IDENTITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AROUSAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864485768     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028589     Document Type: Article

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