Social identity shapes debates

SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES SOCIAL VALUATION Running head: SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES SOCIAL VALUATION Social Identity Shapes Social Valuation: Evidence from Prosocial Behavior and Vicarious Reward

SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES FOOD PLEASANTNESS 1 Running head: SOCIAL IDENTITY SHAPES FOOD PLEASANTNESS From Groups to Grits: Social Identity Shapes Evaluations of Food Pleasantness

Throughout human history, food consumption has been deeply tied to cultural groups. Past models of food preference have assumed that social concerns are dissociated from basic appetitive qualities—such as tastiness—in food choice. Providing a counter to this notion, we tested and found support for the novel idea that social identities can shape the evaluation of food pleasantness. Specifically,...

Swiss identity smells like chocolate: Social identity shapes olfactory judgments

There is extensive evidence that social identities can shape people's attitudes and behavior, but what about sensory judgments? We examined the possibility that social identity concerns may also shape the judgment of non-social properties-namely, olfactory judgment. In two experiments, we presented Swiss and non-Swiss participants with the odor of chocolate, for which Switzerland is world-famou...

Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and Debates

The concept of collective identity has been used extensively by social movement scholars seeking to explain how social movements generate and sustain commitment and cohesion between actors over time. Despite its wide application, collective identity is a notoriously abstract concept. This article focuses on the use of the concept in the literature on contemporary social movements and offers a c...

How social identity shapes the working self-concept

• We were interested in testing the principle of functional antagonism. • When ingroups were salient, participants increased endorsement of group traits. • This effect mainly emerged for ingroups with high psychological utility. • The impact of personal traits, however, did not diminish during ingroup salience. • We did not find evidence for functional antagonism, but rather for adaption. a b s...