Social Identity Theory

Hogg, Michael A.

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“…For same-sex marriage, however, the interaction did not approach statistical significance, although the effect remained in the same direction (IRR = 1.10, P = 0.746, 95% CI = 0.61, 1.98). These findings indicate there may be an in-group advantage (22,33) for moral contagion; that is, moral-emotional language may spread more widely within in-group networks than out-group networks (for a visualization of the retweet network for messages containing moral and emotional language, see Fig. 3).…”

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“…(iii) Are there specific emotions that drive moral contagion (13)? (iv) Does moral contagion contribute to the diffusion of moral content within and between political group networks, or only within them (22)? These questions are central not only to understanding moral contagion but also to understanding phenomena such as political polarization and communication (23).…”

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Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

Brady

Wills

Jost

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Political debate concerning moralized issues is increasingly common in online social networks. However, moral psychology has yet to incorporate the study of social networks to investigate processes by which some moral ideas spread more rapidly or broadly than others. Here, we show that the expression of moral emotion is key for the spread of moral and political ideas in online social networks, a process we call "moral contagion." Using a large sample of social media communications about three polarizing moral/political issues (n = 563,312), we observed that the presence of moral-emotional words in messages increased their diffusion by a factor of 20% for each additional word. Furthermore, we found that moral contagion was bounded by group membership; moral-emotional language increased diffusion more strongly within liberal and conservative networks, and less between them. Our results highlight the importance of emotion in the social transmission of moral ideas and also demonstrate the utility of social network methods for studying morality. These findings offer insights into how people are exposed to moral and political ideas through social networks, thus expanding models of social influence and group polarization as people become increasingly immersed in social media networks.O ur sense of right and wrong shapes our daily interactions in a variety of domains such as political participation, consumer choices, and close relationships. What factors inform our intuitions about morality? Influential theories in psychology maintain that our moral sense is shaped by the social world (1), insofar as decades of research demonstrate that social communities influence moral development in children (2) and account for cross-cultural variation in moral beliefs (3). Furthermore, social information serves as input for cognitive and emotional processes in moral judgment and decision-making (4).Despite a broad consensus that morality is influenced by attitudes and norms transmitted by our social world, remarkably little work has examined how social networks transmit moral attitudes and norms. Most existing research takes a dyadic perspective to study the social transmission of morality; typically, one person (such as a child) is exposed to another's ideas (e.g., parent) through behavior or communication (1, 2). In society, the transmission of morality goes well beyond the dyad. Our moods, thoughts, and actions are shaped by the entire network of individuals with whom we share direct and indirect relationships (5). Thus, we often develop similar ideas and intuitions as others because we are socially connected to them (6). This phenomenon is often deemed social "contagion" because it mimics the spread of disease. We use a social contagion perspective to illuminate how morally tinged messages about political issues are transmitted through social networks.Research on the emotional underpinnings of morality provides a theoretical framework to understand the processes that may drive social contagion in the domain of morality. Emotions...

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Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

Brady

Wills

Jost

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Yet, our approach is also compatible with the understanding that there might be differences in salience in a given context, and it is that membership which is able to bring about relevant effects (see Hogg, 2006). In addition, if our participants conceived each group membership as a separate entity and were able to relate to them differently, then the consideration of isolated reference groups can be said to have heuristic value.…”

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“…People talk about topics relevant to their lives with significant others and other group members; when someone is affiliated to a group, he/she has access to group knowledge, in the form of conventions and shared views on social objects (Wachelke, 2012). The social identity perspective (for an overview, see Hogg, 2006) deals extensively with the impact that belonging to a group or taking a group as a normative reference -hence, such kind of group is called reference group-has on people's beliefs and behavior. There are results that confirm that people who identify with reference groups tend to conform more to the norms of such groups.…”

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The Subjective Perception of Social Objects: An Exploratory Inquiry Based on the Importance of the Opinions of Reference Groups

2015

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The study aimed to explore the organization of the perception of social objects associated with everyday life topics and its relationship with the importance ascribed to them by different social groups. The convenience sample was composed by 315 undergraduate university students from 3 universities from the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina and Rondônia. The participants completed an online questionnaire evaluating the importance granted by 7 social groups (e.g., family, colleagues) to 9 social objects (e.g., work, marriage). A non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis was performed, based on Euclidean distances calculated using the mean scores associated with each object map. The perceptual map thus produced revealed 2 dimensions: one containing professional and affective objects and another that includes topics connected with the future. The article discusses the pertinence of including some of the reference groups studied in research of social representation and the limitations of the study.Keywords: social objects, reference groups, perception, social representations El objetivo del estudio fue explorar la organización de la percepción de objetos sociales vinculados a temas de la vida cotidiana y su relación con la importancia atribuida a estos por parte de distintos grupos sociales. Participaron 315 universitarios de una muestra de conveniencia de 3 universidades brasileñas de Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina e Rondônia, quienes completaron un cuestionario por Internet, en el que debieron evaluar la importancia otorgada por 7 grupos sociales (e.g., familia, compañeros de universidad) a 9 objetos sociales (e.g., trabajo, matrimonio). Se realizó un análisis de escalamiento multidimensional no métrico, basado en distancias euclidianas calculadas a partir de las puntuaciones medias vinculadas a cada mapa objeto. El mapa perceptual obtenido permitió identificar 2 dimensiones: una que contiene objetos de tipo profesional y afectivo y otra que incluye temas relacionados con el futuro. Se discute la pertinencia de la inclusión de algunos de los grupos de referencia estudiados en las investigaciones de las representaciones sociales y las limitaciones del estudio.

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“…Op grond van teorieë oor sosiale identiteit (kyk Tjafel 2010;Hogg 2006;Horrell 2002; Van der Merwe 2013) kan sekere korrelasies met vroeë Christelike gemeenskappe getrek word. Die gemeenskappe het uit bekeerlinge bestaan.…”

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Praktiese ekklesiologie – Kerkwees in die 21ste eeu

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2016

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Social Identity Theory

Cited by 558 publications

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Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks

The Subjective Perception of Social Objects: An Exploratory Inquiry Based on the Importance of the Opinions of Reference Groups

Praktiese ekklesiologie – Kerkwees in die 21ste eeu

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