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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"social identity theory"”.
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A Social Identity Theory Approach to the Acceptance of Negative Evaluation Results
… or critical evaluation findings. Drawing on social identity theory (SIT), the intergroup sensitivity effect (ISE) finds that group members are equally accepting of group-directed praise from both ingroup and outgroup members, however they are much more accepting of group-directed criticism …
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Social Identity Theory and Rebranding: The brand formerly known as Dunkin' Donuts
… Generation Z and Millennials through the lens of social identity theory. Factors studied include visual brand identification, brand loyalty, purchasing habits, and perception of brand equity. Forty-four (N=44) students participated in four focus groups looking at these variables. The findings …
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Under Threat: An Empirical Test of the Social Identity Theory of Psychological Safety
… Although the original psychological safety theory makes little mention of identity, in two studies, I empirically tested a recently developed social identity theory of psychological safety. According to the theory, identity-contingent cues in an individual’s environment activate social …
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Perceptions of dark-skinned beauty on social media using social identity theory : the case of #melaninmagic on Instagram
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirement of the degree Master in Journalism, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Factoring in gamer identity : the application of social identity theory and flow to understanding video game violence effects
… to grow at a steady rate. This project utilizes social identity theory, self-categorization theory, and flow theory to examine differences in aggression and processing of video games between three gamer types: non-gamer, casual gamer, and core gamer. A careful review of previous literature was …
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Social Links Abroad: The Role of Social Identity Theory in the Formation of Public Opinion Towards U.S. Foreign Policy
… mass opinion toward U.S. foreign policy, I argue social identity theory can help explain American’s tendency to exhibit different levels of support toward U.S. foreign policy. In short, groups support policies that will benefit their own ingroups. This project discusses the phenomena in social …
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Healing and Reconciliation: Applying Trauma Theory, Social Identity Theory, and Dialogical Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue among Nigerian Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and the UK
This thesis explores the intersection of trauma theory, social identity theory and dialogical approaches in the context of interfaith dialogue among Nigerian Christian and Muslim groups in Nigeria and the UK. Through ethnographic case studies focusing particularly on the Redeemed Christian Church …
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Discrimination: because I want to or because I have to? : a comparison between the explanations of social identity theory and social dominance theory for intergroup prejudice in South Africa
… attitudinal orientations, as implied by the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) construct of Social Dominance Theory, or by the context variance favoured by Social Identity Theory. To this end, three studies were conducted. The first study was designed to establish whether the standard …
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TRANSITION INTO HIGHER EDUCATION: IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACADEMIC SOCIAL IDENTITY IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS IMPORTANT TO ACHIEVEMENT?
Identity has been recognised as a possible influence within education research and a student’s ability to achieve their full potential (Bluic, Ellis, Goodyear & Hendres, 2011). The current thesis explores identity in undergraduate Psychology students, in particular it provides a theoretical …
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Asylum seekers in the UK: a social psychological understanding of a moral panic
… value of this concept could be enhanced by using social psychological theory to understand the cause and impact of such a moral panic. A theoretical framework of social representations and social identity theory was used to explore psychological processes underpinning UK host receptivity to moral …
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The role of social media in the spread of health misinformation in South Africa: the Netwerk24 Facebook page, Afrikaner identity, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
The increase in health misinformation shared on social media resulted in the World Health Organisation declaring an ‘infodemic' (or information pandemic) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Health misinformation can have serious consequences, including public resistance to …
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Adoption and the Formation of Eschatological Identity: An Exegetical Study of Huiothesia
… ADOPTION AND THE FORMATION OF ESCHATOLOGICAL IDENTITY: AN EXEGETICAL STUDY OF HUIOTHESIA Christopher Frederick Wehrle, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. Mark A. Seifrid Paul used divine adoption (υἱοθεσία) as a religious metaphor in a rich and diverse way. The …
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The credibility of news in Saudi Arabia : a comparative study of print newspapers with their online counterparts and exclusively online newspapers among Saudis
… the application of framework derived from Social Identity Theory and the concepts of media credibility and reliance in order to answer the project's research questions. Quantitative research was based on a questionnaire aimed at gathering evidence to ascertain how personal characteristics …
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Social Networking and the Web Campaign: Observations from the 2010 Election for the U.S. House of Representatives
… origins of this view and why participation on social media may be uniquely meaningful in comparison with other Internet-based activities. Examination of social media using Resource Theory and Social Identity Theory justify this unique status by highlighting and rationalizing social media's …
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The Impact of Schadenfreude as an Emotional Frame in Crisis Communications on Perception of Corporate Reputation
… Additionally, both third-person effect and social identity theory were introduced to explore their presence, and potential application, in future crisis communications. While the stimulus materials were unsuccessful in creating significantly different emotions in the subjects, there was an …
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The mediating effect of trust in supervisor and loyalty to supervisor between superior-subordinate Guanxi and OCB in the People's Rebublic of China
… context of - the norm of reciprocity, social identity theory and social cognitive theory and their effect on the relationship between superior-subordinate guanxi and subordinates’ organisational citizenship behaviour. Social exchange theory, social identity theory and the theory of …
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Exploring employees' attitudes towards employment equity from a social identity perspective
… this difference in employees? attitudes from a Social Identity Theory (SIT) perspective.
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African American English as a Predictor of Ethnic and Ethnolinguistic Identity in Adolescence
… purposes were to provide support for the <em>Social identity theory of African American English</em> (Vietze & Glasco, 2022) and the meanings African American English (AAE) speakers assign to their dialect. The study was primarily based on Tajfel’s (1979) social identity theory that proposes …
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Lives and careers in music: a social identity perspective on brass music-making
… in an online survey. Combining theories from social psychology and music psychology (social identity theory (Tajfel, 1979) and musical identity (MacDonald, 2002)) enables the musician to be considered as a social category, and from this to develop a contemporary and novel investigation into …
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Bridging the gender gap: factors enabling female directors to affect the appointment of female CEOs
… To study the relationship, I first draw on social identity theory to explain female directors’ preference for a female CEO candidate. Then, considering that female directors' minority status may constrain their ability to affect group decisions, I supplement social identity theory with …
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