This review provides a new integration of recent research that has formed the basis of a
social identity explanation of supportive collective behaviour among survivors in …

This chapter began with a brief history of the self, noting that in recent decades social
psychology has at long last embraced some seminal conceptions of the self offered by …

What motivates ordinary civilians to sacrifice their lives for revolutionary causes? We
surveyed 179 Libyan revolutionaries during the 2011 conflict in Libya. These civilians-turned …

Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today's global terrorism are in part
driven by “devoted actors” who adhere to sacred, transcendent values that generate actions …

Identity fusion is a visceral sense of “oneness” with a group and its individual members that
motivates personally costly, pro-group behaviors. Past approaches, most notably social …

Whether upheld as heroic or reviled as terrorism, people have been willing to lay down their
lives for the sake of their groups throughout history. Why? Previous theories of extreme self …

Despite recognizing the importance of events, researchers have rarely explored the
influence of broader societal events on employee experiences and behaviors at work. We …

Willingness to lay down one's life for a group of non-kin, well documented historically and
ethnographically, represents an evolutionary puzzle. Building on research in social …

What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The
classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are …

Nationalistic identities often play an influential role in citizens' voting behavior and political
engagement. Nationalistic ideologies tend to have firm categories and rules for what …