Social Comparison and prosocial behavior: An applied study of social identity theory in community food drives

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Shipley
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Salient Dimension ◽  
World Environment

Social Identity Theory and the concept of social comparison have inspired research on individuals, addressing effects of personal and environmental factors in directing social attention. The theory's conceptual origins, however, suggest that social comparison may have behavioral implications as well. Such behaviors may include attempts by an individual to enhance the relative status of his ingroup on a salient dimension of comparison. Such behavior is referred to as “social competition.” In two studies, the effects of social comparison and social competition were measured in the real-world environment of community food drives. Participants were aggregated by household; 600 households in upper middle-class neighborhoods in Eugene and Salem, Oregon, were contacted. In Study 1 of 300 households, it was hypothesized that inclusion of a social competition cue in requests for donation would significantly increase the likelihood of donation. This hypothesis was supported. Study 2 was done to clarify the possible role in a social comparison of perceived ingroup inferiority in the prior observed increase in donations. The inclusion of a social comparison cue in the donation request significantly increased donations in households of the second study. The findings suggest that researchers should expand study of the theory's behavioral implications, including the role of social comparison in prosocial behavior.

Lost in Misconceptions about Social Identity Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1189-1191
Author(s):  
Deborah Welch Larson ◽  
Alexei Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Us ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
Zero Sum

Abstract Dissatisfied with their relative standing in the world, China and Russia are challenging the US-dominated liberal order. Could US accommodation of their status concerns reduce conflict? The psychological rationale for status accommodation is rooted in the insights of social identity theory (SIT), which argues that persistent status denial leads lower-status groups to “lash out.” Steven Ward (2017) objects that political scientists have misinterpreted SIT. In his view, impermeable group boundaries only affect individuals and do not lead to intergroup conflict. Ward's narrow critique overlooks the larger meaning and significance of SIT, which is about how frustration and anger over status barriers and unfair treatment motivate lower-status groups to challenge the status quo. Social competition is positional and zero-sum. Given the insights of SIT, Ward's recommendation that the United States demonstrate to China and Russia the futility of status competition is likely to provoke a backlash and increase the risk of military conflict. Instead, SIT implies a continuing process of status accommodation and efforts to maintain the legitimacy and stability of US leadership.

scholarly journals Exploring entrepreneurial roles and identity in the United Kingdom and China

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Bell ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Huirong Zhan ◽  
David Bozward ◽  
Jing Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Holistic Understanding

This article examines entrepreneurial identity in both the United Kingdom and China through the lenses of identity theory and social identity theory to develop a deeper and more holistic understanding of the concept of entrepreneurial identity. By examining the entrepreneur as both a role and an identity, this article explores how an entrepreneur views the role of the entrepreneur, the counter-roles to the entrepreneur, and the “self-as-entrepreneur” and seeks to understand how entrepreneurs construct their identity as an entrepreneur. By looking at the role identity in different social constructs, a more nuanced view of entrepreneurial identity can be uncovered for entrepreneurs in both the United Kingdom and China. The study argues that entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom use counter-roles to bridge the disconnect between their understanding of the entrepreneur-as-role and the self-as-entrepreneur, whereas entrepreneurs in China have less conflict reconciling the two and use the counter-role as a way to paint entrepreneurship as a “calling,” justifying their abandonment of other identities.

Women's Responses to Status Inequality: A Test of Social Identity Theory

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Breinlinger ◽  
Caroline Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Individual Mobility ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Social Creativity ◽  
Status Inequality ◽  
Q Sort

This study examined women's responses to status inequality using the theoretical framework of Social Identity Theory (SIT). Accordingly, it was predicted that three mutually exclusive clusters of responses would be distinguished: individual mobility, social creativity, and social competition. Fifty women participated in a Q-sort study where the statements used reflected these three strategies. Four main factors emerged in factor analysis. Although some elements of the emerging factors were consonant with Social Identity Theory, important differences were also found. Thus, findings suggested that women draw simultaneously on different ideologies to make sense of their social situation. Furthermore, there was no evidence to suggest that strength of identification with one's own sex group is related to choice of strategy.

Gender disparaging jokes: An investigation of sexist-nonstereotypical jokes on funniness, typicality, and the moderating role of ingroup identification

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Abrams ◽  
Amy M. Bippus ◽  
Karen J. McGaughey
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ingroup Identification ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis experiment relied on social identity theory to investigate jokes that express superiority and denigration toward social groups. In particular, the social identity of gender is examined in the context of sexist-nonstereotypical jokes. Results revealed that sexist-nonstereotypical jokes had the greatest impact on women. Specifically, women rated jokes about men funnier than jokes about themselves, and highly identified women found jokes targeting men significantly funnier than jokes targeting women. These results, and others relating to prototypicality, offer insight into how disparaging intergroup jokes function to accentuate and attenuate intergroup relations.

Everyone Hates the NCAA: The Role of Identity in the Evaluations of Amateurism Transgressions: A Case Study of the Chase Young’s Loan Scandal

2021 ◽  
pp. 216747952110091
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Cranmer ◽  
Brandon Boatwright ◽  
SaiDatta Mikkilineni ◽  
Joey Fontana
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Football Player ◽  
Ohio State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Identity Threat ◽  
Exchange Information

This manuscript is a case study into public responses to an amateurism transgression committed by Chase Young, a former Ohio State University football player and Heisman candidate. In November of 2019, Young utilized his personal Twitter to announce an amateurism transgression stemming from his acceptance of an improper loan. This study considers 1,674 public and direct replies to Young on Twitter. A variety of themes were identified, including attempts to support Young, externalize the blame, dispute Young’s story, exchange information, communicate ambiguously, and contemplate consequences of the transgression. Utilizing social identity theory and identity threat management, public expressions of fandom were positioned as a variable that explained the diversity in responses to Young’s transgression. Indeed, findings illustrated in-group and out-group biases, whereby Ohio State fans supported Young and fans of other teams disputed his story. Interestingly non-expressed fans engaged in image repair on Young’s behalf via externalizing blame to other institutions, especially the NCAA, which may demonstrate the interplay of multifaceted identities. Results from this manuscript help lay the groundwork for audience-centered efforts to understand athlete transgressions.

Deprivazione relativa e identitŕ sociale

2009 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Massimo Martini
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
The Social ◽  
Deprivation Model ◽  
The Relationship

- This work analyzes the relationships between the Relative Deprivation Model and the Social Identity Theory. In the first part, different definitions of the concept of relative deprivation are presented, as well as its different typologies. In the second part, the theoretical and empirical links between the Relative Deprivation Modell and the processes of social identification are examined. Finally, the importance of the relationship between the two theories for the prevision of interindividual and intergroup strategies in social comparison is highlighted.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effects of Organizational Reputation in Predicting Job Seekers Attraction from Third-Party Organizational Justice Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 6693-6708
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Signaling Theory ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Informational Justice ◽  
Organizational Reputation

This paper seeks to investigate the stipulation individuals’ perceptions of organizational justice, organizational reputation, and its effects to job seekers’ attractiveness. A total of 327 accounting and finance interns were assumed the role of job seekers. We wanted respondents to assess organizations in which they are currently undergoing internship to increase the likelihood that they had experience during the internship and knowledge gained about the organization; thus, held informed opinions about organizational justice and reputation, and its attractiveness as job seekers. We found each organizational justice dimensions (procedural, distributive, interpersonal and informational justice) influence job seeker attraction while organizational reputation role as mediator is significant. We suggested that organizations pay more attention on the informational justice and distribution justice following the empirical contribution is above than other dimensions either in direct or mediator impact of organizational reputation. Moreover, we else well highlighted the empirically evident that recognized the notion of signaling theory incorporated with social identity theory to publicize a deeper explanation of the job seeker attraction process. This is the first study to show that organizational justice is an instrumental characteristic, organizational reputation is a symbolic characteristic drawn from signaling theory and social identity theory and, this combination is better to comprehend on the job seeker attraction concept.

scholarly journals Cooperation with Health Professionals during the Pandemic of COVID 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Ghanashyam Niroula
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

The article presents light on the issues of cooperation with health workers during the COVID 19. Coronavirus pandemic has become one of the challenges to humankind and it caused devastating effects in almost all countries of the world. The purpose of the paper is to analyze how important the role of people’s cooperation with health workers is during the coronavirus pandemic. The theoretical concept related to humanism and social identity theory is discussed to understand individual and group’s collective effort to increase cooperation in the society during the pandemic. Subsequently, different events of cooperation among people and health workers and other incidents depicting stigma and discrimination in Nepal and other places during the COVID 19 pandemic are discussed based on a review of literatures.

scholarly journals A Social Identity Model for Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 564-586
Author(s):  
Dominic Abrams ◽  
Diane M. Houston ◽  
Barbara M. Masser ◽  
Blake M. McKimmie
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Group Memberships ◽  
The Impact

Much of the research on individual attainment in educational settings has focused on individual differences. This chapter sets out the role of groups and group processes. After reviewing evidence for the role of social comparison in the classroom, and theory and research on ethnic group differences, we consider the impact of category memberships, stereotypes, and threat on educational performance. We introduce social identity theory and explain its relevance to educational outcomes. We then offer an integrative social identity model for education (SIME) that incorporates three elements of education research: social comparison, stereotypes, and identity. The model provides a more comprehensive perspective on the role of intergroup and intragroup relations and indicates how (and which) group memberships can present barriers to, or reveal new horizons for, performance and achievement. We describe how these elements may work together in practice and conclude by considering prospects and approaches for future research.

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