On the agency of individuals and groups: Lessons from the BBC prison study

Individuality and the Group: Advances in Social Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 237-257

  Reicher, Stephen ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446211946.n13     Document Type: Chapter

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