The cognitive contents of social-group identity: values, emotions, and relationships

✍ Scribed by B. Ann Bettencourt; Deborah Hume

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199902)29:1<113::aid-ejsp911>3.0.co;2-g

✦ Synopsis

This paper investigates whether persons' cognitive representations of valued group identities dier in content from their representations of their personal identity. The results showed dierences between participants' qualitative descriptions of their group identities and their personal identities. Values, emotions, and personal relationships were more often listed in group identity representations than in personal identity representations.