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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Uncertainty Identity Theory"”.
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Political Echo Chambers: The Internet Facilitates Identity Confirmation
… as people with different worldviews inhabit identity echo chambers with like-minded others and are empowered to clash with those who have different worldviews. The research conducted in this study aimed to determine whether the easy access to confirming information provided by the Internet …
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Wait, Who Did You Say We Are? The Effects of Self-Uncertainty and Leadership Rhetoric on Group Identification
<p>Uncertainty identity theory (e.g., Hogg, 2021a) posits that when feelings of self-uncertainty arise, we are motivated to reduce those feelings, and one way we can do this is to identify with a distinctive group that has a clearly defined identity. In these circumstances, we look to the group’s …
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Impact of a Pandemic on Attitudes towards Immigrants
… was made salient. Based on intergroup threat theory (Rios et al., 2018) and uncertainty identity theory (Hogg, 2021a), two empirical studies investigated the effect of realistic and symbolic threats from the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s attitudes towards immigrants. Study 1 (N =303) tested if …
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
… the ethnic majority group. Drawing from social identity theory and uncertainty-identity theory, two studies were conducted to examine whether population shift can elicit anti-immigration sentiment via the elevated entitativity threat to American national identity in addition to the threat to …
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Recognize and Accept Me: Consequences of the Drive for Social Identity Validation
<p>According to uncertainty-identity theory (Hogg, 2021a) one of the benefits of group identification is uncertainty-reduction. To reap this benefit fully, it is posited that people also are motivated to have their identities validated, especially if the identity is one that is important to a …
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Fearing the Uncertain: A Causal Exploration of Self-Esteem, Self-Uncertainty, and Mortality Salience
<p>Social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) is one of the most influential social psychological theories of group behavior and intergroup relations. Early social identity research focused on many different group processes; however, the motivation behind group identification was not fully …
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Identity complexity, uncertainty, and belongingness: Understanding the appeal of extremist groups
… upon in the literature. Incorporating social identity theory and uncertainty-identity theory, past studies in social psychology have investigated factors influencing individuals' involvement in such groups from different perspectives. However, the effects of uncertainty combined with identity …
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Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations
… this perception as a distinctive group induces uncertainty about one’s own group membership (Hogg, 2000, 2007, 2012a, 2012b; Stephan et al., 2002). When uncertainty is induced, people should strengthen their identification with their linguistic identities and worsen attitudes and action …
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Malcontents in the Middle: Uncertainty-Identity, Extreme Religious Groups and Leader Rhetoric
… leading people to religious extremism is uncertainty (Hogg et al., 2010a). To test this possibility, Chapman (2012) conducted an exploratory study assessing the effects of religiosity (defined as group, ritual, extrinsic, or external religiosity), spirituality (defined as individual, …