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Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowds

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Date
05/08/2020
Author
Neville, Fergus G.
Novelli, David
Drury, John
Reicher, Stephen D.
Funder
Economic & Social Research Council
Grant ID
ES/N01068X/1
Keywords
Shared identity
Social identity
Crowds
Group behaviour
Social identification
Social interaction
Intimacy
Intragroup relations
Positive emotions
Group processes
Shared social identity
BF Psychology
Social Psychology
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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Abstract
In this paper we present three studies that address the difference between physical and psychological groups, the conditions which create a transformation from the one into the other, and the psychological processes underlying this transformation. In Study 1 we demonstrate correlations between shared social identity, desired physical proximity to others and positive emotions in the company of others. Study 2, employing a between-subjects design, finds that an event which creates shared fate, such as the breakdown of a train, leads to greater comfort in social interactions (e.g. ease of conversation) and comfort in sensual interactions (e.g. tolerance of the physical touch) with other passengers, and that this occurs through an increase in shared social identity but not through social identification. Study 3 obtains similar findings using a within-subjects design. In combination, these studies provide consistent evidence for the role of shared social identity in the emergence of psychological from physical groups.
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Neville , F G , Novelli , D , Drury , J & Reicher , S D 2020 , ' Shared social identity transforms social relations in imaginary crowds ' , Group Processes and Intergroup Relations , vol. Online First . https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220936759
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Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430220936759
ISSN
1368-4302
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2020. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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This research was supported by ESRC Postgraduate Studentships for the first (PTA-030-200600100) and second authors (PTA-031-200500096), and an ESRC research grant for the third and fourth authors (ES/N01068X/1).
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