PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Centrality, Procedural Justice, Interpersonal Attraction
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Theoretical themes and developments: groups can be. Self-structure and process: cameron describes social identity as, centrality (cognitive accessibility) A study showed that people strongly derogated a person if their opinion differed from the majority, if the person and the majority were of the same ingroup: national identity had 4 major modes of group identification. Importance of identity: commitment to benefit the group, superiority (desire for positive distinctiveness, defere(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:894)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ra(cid:272)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)or(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d leadership goals as o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374)(cid:895) Social identity can develop through personal acceptance/adoption of group memberships, relational social identities that are specific to a particular group contexts and sustained interpersonal attraction and interdependence amount group members. It has been argued that there are structurally separate private, public and collective aspects of the self. This means that personal identity is more stable and cognitively accessible than the social identity. indicating that they are more sensitive to threats to the personal identity.
