Group Identity and Ingroup Bias: The Social Identity Approach

The processes of creative production and creativity recognition are both understood to be central to the dynamics of creativity. Nevertheless, they are generally seen by creativity researchers as theoretically unrelated. In contrast, social identity theorizing suggests a model of creativity in which groups play a role both in inspiring creative acts and in determining the reception they receive. More specifically, this approach argues that shared social identity (or lack of it) motivates individuals to rise to particular creative challenges and provides a basis for certain forms of creativity to be recognized (or disregarded). This chapter explicates the logic underlying the social identity approach and summarizes some of the key evidence that supports it.

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Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

European Journal of Social Psychology ◽

10.1002/ejsp.2333 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (7) ◽

pp. 789-802 ◽

Cited By ~ 69

Author(s):

Jolanda Jetten ◽

S. Alexander Haslam ◽

Tegan Cruwys ◽

Katharine H. Greenaway ◽

Catherine Haslam ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Well Being ◽

The Social ◽

Health And Well Being ◽

Social Identity Approach

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Social identity and social value orientations

10.31235/osf.io/83rzv ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ozan Aksoy

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Significant Variation ◽

Value Orientations ◽

Social Value ◽

Absolute Difference ◽

Ingroup Bias ◽

Social Value Orientation ◽

Orientation Model ◽

The Social ◽

Social Value Orientations

This study provides an extension of the social value orientation model and a tool, other-other Decomposed Games, to quantify the influence of social identity on social value orientations. Social identity is induced experimentally using the minimal group paradigm. Subsequently, the weights subjects add to the outcomes of outgroup others relative to ingroup others and to the absolute difference between the outcomes of ingroup and outgroup others are estimated. Results are compared to a control condition in which social identity is not induced. Results show that when the outgroup is better off than the ingroup, the average subject is spiteful: they derive negative utility from the outcomes of the outgroup other. When the ougroup is worse off than the ingroup, the average subject attaches similar weights to the outcomes of outgroup and ingroup others. There is also significant variation across subjects with respect to the level of ingroup bias.

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Paul and the Author of 1 Clement as Entrepreneurs of Identity in Corinthian Crises of Leadership

Journal for the Study of the New Testament ◽

10.1177/0142064x211064782 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0142064X2110647

Author(s):

Katja Kujanpää

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Active Role ◽

Social Psychological ◽

The Past ◽

Psychological Theories ◽

The Social ◽

Social Identity Approach

When Paul and the author of 1 Clement write letters to Corinth to address crises of leadership, both discuss Moses’ παρρησία (frankness and openness), yet they evaluate it rather differently. In this article, I view both authors as entrepreneurs of identity and explore the ways in which they try to shape their audience’s social identity and influence their behaviour in the crisis by selectively retelling scriptural narratives related to Moses. The article shows that social psychological theories under the umbrella term of the social identity approach help to illuminate the active role of leaders in identity construction as well as the processes of retelling the past in order to mobilize one’s audience.

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