Editorial: Social Identity Modelling

Social Identity

Intersectionality The condition in which a person simultaneously belongs to two or more social categories or social statuses and the unique consequences that result from that combination Minimal group paradigm An experimental procedure for creating social identity conditions in which participants are arbitrarily assigned to one group or another. Social representations Commonly shared and collec...

Editorial: Identity and Interoperability in Bioinformatics

It was claimed some time ago that the Human Genome Project could not have been completed without Perl, as a ready language-based means for resolving interoperability problems. At a more fundamental level, if we accept this claim for Perl, we might then have a retrospective look at the total interoperability framework for scientific collaboration on genomics. In so doing we might ask, ‘what are ...

Editorial : A European Sense of Identity ?

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Editorial: Digital Visions and Digital Identity

Social identity change: shifts in social identity during adolescence.

This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early- (12-13 years), mid- (15-16 years), and late-adolescents (18-20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self-stereotypi...