Distinctions are made between global and specific, personal and social, and trait and state
self-esteem, and these are used to structure a review of over 40 studies concerning social …

This study (N= 216) measured the strength of endorsements for ingroup leaders who varied
in both their relative ingroup prototypicality and distributive intergroup fairness. Leadership …

My purpose is to extract some basic principles that have emerged from social psychological
research on intergroup relations that illustrate how social psychology can inform both basic …

It is now 21 years since the first published statement of social identity theory (Tajfel, 1978a).
Just as such an anniversary in a person's life would often be marked in some way, so it is …

William James (1890) distinguished between the “I” and the “Me.” The “I” is the self as
experienced, the active thinking processor. The “Me” is the stock of empirical information …

Social Groups in Action and Interaction reviews and analyzes the human group as it
operates to create both social good and, potentially, social harm. It summarizes current …

Two explanations of why shared group membership promotes cooperation in social
dilemmas were compared. According to the fear—greed model of social identity proposed …

This study investigates the apparent methodological shortcomings of the current literature
that considers patients' evaluations of their care. In an effort to resolve the evident …

In this paper, we put forward the thesis that leadership is fundamentally a group process:
leaders must be 'one of us'. We build our argument around recent social identity theory and …

Experimenters observed the number of sport-team-identified fans who contributed money to
charity workers before and after 6 football games. Charity workers were identified as …