The Social Self: On Being the Same and Different at the Same Time
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...Group identities are essential for individual emotional functioning, as they address conflicting needs for individuation and affiliation (Brewer, 1991)....
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...Rather than view identity as stable, researchers now view identity structures as fluid, with prominence of identity often shifting with social context (Brewer, 1991; Crocker & Quinn, 2000; Deaux & Ethier, 1998)....
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...Distinctiveness threat is an opposite threat, relating to denial of distinct group membership when it is relevant or significant (also Brewer, 1991)....
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...…automatically behaving in a manner similar to other group members—including having similar facial reactions to events—helps prevent an individual member from standing out as different, and so it would help to prevent ostracism and social distance from other group members (see Brewer, 1991)....
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...The threat may be stronger in large superordinate groups because of optimal distinctiveness considerations (Brewer, 1991, 1993)....
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...In social identity theory, the person (or "personal") identity is the lowest level of self-categorization (Brewer 1991; Hogg and Abrams 1988)....
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