PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Identity Theory, Ingroups And Outgroups, Psych

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2120
• Professor: Kery Kawakami

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Intimate family/friends: task team, orchestra, school work etc. , social jews, muslims, women, men. , loose association same neighbourhood. Entitavity degree in which people feel like a cohesive group (intimate groups has more entitavity than social group) Reasons we need to belong to groups: common bond. Interactions with each other to meet needs & achieve goals: communal sharing what"s mine is yours, market pricing reciprocity produces bond. Common bond cohesion - more cohesion means successful @ goals than less cohesion. But too much cohesion = low group performance, more focused on getting along vs. achieving goals: common identity. Roles expected behaviours in situations. (hoggs et al. 2007): experiment: 1/2 participants told others in groups responded the same to questionnaires, 1/2 participants told to write about uncertainty of self/life on paper, results: uncertainty of self identification with group also. Social identity theory belonging to groups = source of self-esteem. Understanding oneself as individuals shaped by membership (view in light of one"s own group).