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Social identification effects in group polarization.

Diane M. Mackie
- 01 Apr 1986 - 
- Vol. 50, Iss: 4, pp 720-728
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This article is published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.The article was published on 1986-04-01. It has received 247 citations till now.

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Intergroup emotions: explaining offensive action tendencies in an intergroup context.

TL;DR: People who perceived the in-group as strong were more likely to experience anger toward the out-group and to desire to take action against it, and the effects of perceived in-groups strength on offensive action tendencies were mediated by anger.
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Small Groups: Key Readings

TL;DR: Moreland et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the Contingency model, a theory of leadership effectiveness, for small group composition and found that it can be used to identify common identity and common bond groups.
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Social Identity, Self-Categorization, and the Communication of Group Norms

TL;DR: The role of norms within the social identity perspective as a basis for theorizing a number of manifestly communicative phenomena has been discussed in this paper, where group norms are cognitively represented as context-dependent prototypes that capture the distinctive properties of groups.
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Progress in Small Group Research

TL;DR: The Revue de la litterature sur les petits groupes (ecologie, structure, composition, conflit, performance) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of petits groups.
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Social Identity Theory and Self‐categorization Theory: A Historical Review

TL;DR: The social identity approach (comprising social identity theory and self-categorization theory) is a highly influential theory of group processes and intergroup relations, having redefined how we think about numerous group-mediated phenomena.
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Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

TL;DR: A judgmental heuristic in which a person evaluates the frequency of classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e., by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind, is explored.
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Social identity and intergroup relations

TL;DR: Tajfel as discussed by the authors proposed the Cognitive Construction of Groups (CCG) model, which is a cognitive redefinition of the social group and the determination of collective behaviour, and the battle for acceptance: an investigation into the dynamics of intergroup behaviour.
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Processes of opinion change

TL;DR: In this article, a persistent concern in the analysis of public opinion data is the "meaning" that one can ascribe to the observed distributions and trends and to the positions taken by particular individuals and segments of the population.
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Social comparison and social identity: Some prospects for intergroup behaviour

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an explanation of these findings in terms of the operation of social comparison processes between groups based on the need for a positive ingroup identity, which can be analyzed as a form of social competition.