Vegetarianism as a social identity

Vegetarianism, dietary restraint and feminist identity.

OBJECTIVE Research examining the relationship between dietary restraint and vegetarianism has yielded inconsistent results due to differing definitions of vegetarianism and the possible modifying role of feminist identity. The current study sought to further clarify these relationships by examining three levels of vegetarianism, motivation for vegetarianism, and feminist identity (using an upda...

Identity Perception of Computers as Social Actors

Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyalty.

In 3 experiments, the authors investigated the role of social identity in fostering group loyalty, defined as staying when members can obtain better outcomes by leaving their group. In Experiment 1, high (vs. low) identifiers expressed a stronger desire to stay in the group in the presence of an attractive (vs. unattractive) exit option. Experiments 2 and 3 replicated this basic finding and tes...

Silos and Social Identity: The Social Identity Approach as a Framework for Understanding and Overcoming Divisions in Health Care

CONTEXT One of health care's foremost challenges is the achievement of integration and collaboration among the groups providing care. Yet this fundamentally group-related issue is typically discussed in terms of interpersonal relations or operational issues, not group processes. METHODS We conducted a systematic search for literature offering a group-based analysis and examined it through the...

Dietetics, health reform and social order: vegetarianism as a moral physiology. The example of Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939).

Having virtually disappeared from the canons of medicine during the early modern period, dietetics returned in the early nineteenth century as part of a new nutritional physiology tied to scientific "animal production" and, generally, to a new, market-oriented agriculture. This medical advocacy of meat-eating ran up against a counter-movement of a simultaneously developing "alternative" dieteti...