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Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict

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The article was published on 2001-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 249 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social psychology (sociology) & Group conflict.

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Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss cohesion and deviance, leadership, subgroup and sociodemographic structure, and mergers and acquisitions in organizational psychology, and show how these developments can address a range of organizational phenomena.
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Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition.

TL;DR: The authors find East Asians to be holistic, attending to the entire field and assigning causality to it, making relatively little use of categories and formal logic, and relying on "dialectical" reasoning, whereas Westerners are more analytic.
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Social Identity Theory

TL;DR: Social identity theory is an interactionist social psychological theory of the role of self-conception and associated cognitive processes and social beliefs in group processes and intergroup relations as discussed by the authors, which has been significantly extended through a range of subtheories that focus on social influence and group norms, leadership within and between groups, selfenhancement and uncertainty reduction motivations, deindividuation and collective behavior, social mobilization and protest, and marginalization and deviance within groups.
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Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

TL;DR: This article found that Chinese participants preferred dialectical proverbs containing seeming contradictions more than did American participants when presented with two apparently contradictory propositions, and Chinese participants were moderately accepting of both propositions.
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Evolutionary origins of stigmatization: the functions of social exclusion.

TL;DR: The authors propose that phenomena currently placed under the general rubric of stigma involve a set of distinct psychological systems designed by natural selection to solve specific problems associated with sociality.
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