Attention Mediates the Effect of Context-Relevant Social

Srinivasan, Narayanan; Tewari, Shruti; Makwana, Mukesh; Hopkins, Nick

doi:10.1163/22134468-00002032

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“…In line with the social support hypothesis, Hopkins and Reicher describe a series of studies among Kalpwasis (i.e., participants at mass gatherings) in which the various difficulties that these individuals confront (e.g., illness, coldness) are perceived by high identifiers as collective challenges that invite and facilitate social support provision and social support acceptance. In line with the meaning hypothesis, shared identity as pilgrims is also shown to enhance the significance of the event so that the health challenges it presents are not simply endured, but actively enjoyed and cherished—precisely because they are experienced as identity‐affirming (see also Hopkins & Reicher, ; Srinivasan, Tewari, Makwana, & Hopkins, ).…”

Section: Social Identities As Psychological Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 82%

Advancing the social identity approach to health and well‐being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

Jetten

Haslam

Cruwys

et al. 2017

Euro J Social Psych

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The health of people's body and mind is powerfully conditioned by social factors that affect their social identity. Consistent with this notion, there is a growing interest in the way that group memberships (and the social identities derived from belonging to these groups) affect health and well‐being. To the extent that group memberships provide individuals with meaning, support, and agency (i.e., a positive sense of social identity), health is positively impacted, constituting a “social cure”. However, when group membership is not associated with these positive psychological resources or when social identity is challenged in other ways (e.g., group membership is devalued or stigmatised), social identities may become a curse, threatening and potentially harming health and well‐being. In a range of social contexts, novel examples of these processes are brought together in the contributions to this special issue. In this editorial, we link the findings from these contributions to a set of hypotheses that emerge from the social identity approach to highlight the nuanced ways in which social identity processes are key to understanding health and well‐being (Haslam, Jetten, Cruwys, Dingle, & Haslam, forthcoming). The contributions in this special issue point to fruitful ways to develop the social cure agenda. Together they highlight the importance of social identities as powerful psychological resources that have an important role to play in managing and improving health.

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Section: Social Identities As Psychological Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 82%

Advancing the social identity approach to health and well‐being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

Jetten

Haslam

Cruwys

et al. 2017

Euro J Social Psych

450

498

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“…In the former case, pilgrims found the clip more meaningful and interesting, less uncomfortable, and they also chose to listen to it longer (Shankar et al, 2013). Moreover, the results of time perception studies conducted using this same clip showed that it was processed differently (attracting more attention) when it was designated Mela-related (Srinivasan, Tewari, Makwana, & Hopkins, 2015;Srinivasan et al, 2013). Again, the point is that what may appear to be intrusive 'noise' (and a stressor) can, when viewed from the vantage point of a particular identity, be meaningful 'sound' and contribute to positive affect which in turn means that well-being is maintained.…”

Section: C1 Affective Transformations: Health Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Social identity and health at mass gatherings

Hopkins

Reicher

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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Identifying with a group can bring benefits to physical and psychological health. These benefits can be found with both small‐scale and large‐scale social groups. However, groups can also be associated with health risks: A distinct branch of medicine (‘Mass Gathering Medicine’) has evolved to address the health risks posed by participating in events characterised by large crowds. We argue that emphasising either the positive or the negative health consequences of group life is one‐sided: Both positive and negative effects on health can occur (simultaneously). Moreover, both such effects can have their roots in the same social psychological transformations associated with a group‐based social identification. Reviewing evidence from across a range of mass gatherings, we offer a conceptual analysis of such mixed effects. Our account shows (i) how social identity analyses can enrich mass gathering medicine and (ii) how social identity analyses of health can be enriched by examining mass gatherings.

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“…The noise of the crowd, at least when it derives from religious songs, chants and dramas, is experienced as a further affirmation of shared religious devotion and hence as non-intrusive (Shankar, Stephenson, Pandey, Tewari, Hopkins & Reicher, 2013). Indeed we even have evidence that noises attributed to the Mela, and hence seen as identity relevant, are encoded more richly and remembered better than identical noises attributed to non-identity relevant sources (Srinivasan, et al, 2013;Srinivasan, Tewari, Makwana, & Hopkins, 2015). Finally, as concerns the issue of proximity and the experience of disgust, we have evidence from elsewhere that bodily excreta (sweat in this case) are experienced as less disgusting when they emanate from an ingroup source (Reicher, Templeton, Neville, Ferrari & Drury, 2016) All in all, and across a series of modalities, we see that the identity relevance of stimuli -that is, precisely what they mean in relation to the self and whether they affirm or undermine the self, is critical to the way that they are encoded, evaluated and approached (or else avoided).…”

Section: Exploring the Dynamics Of The Variable Selfmentioning

confidence: 92%