Virtual reality (VR) started about 50 years ago in a form we would recognize today [stereo head-mounted display (HMD), head tracking, computer graphics generated images] …
Nonprofits address some of the world's most pressing problems, and many rely on donations to fund their essential work. Nonprofit marketers are, therefore, tasked with promoting …
A growing body of research shows that social networks and identities have a profound impact on mental and physical health. With such mounting evidence of the importance of …
Identity fusion is a relatively unexplored form of alignment with groups that entails a visceral feeling of oneness with the group. This feeling is associated with unusually porous, highly …
Ingroup favouritism–the tendency to favour members of one's own group over those in other groups–is well documented, but the mechanisms driving this behavior are not well …
This paper describes an emerging body of work on intergroup prosociality, drawing together parallel literatures and highlighting some of the themes of the recent research. A broad …
In the 2009 movie Up in the Air George Clooney plays the part of Ryan Bingham, a corporate consultant who is hired to fly around the United States firing company employees …
EF Thomas, C McGarty… - Personality and Social …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the synergies between recent developments in the social identity of helping, and advantaged groups' prosocial emotion. The authors review the literature on the …
EF Thomas, CA McGarty - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper adopts an intergroup perspective on helping as collective action to explore the ways to boost motivation amongst people in developed countries to join the effort to combat …