Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2003
Abstract
Social identity approaches assume that social identification affects both self-conception and intergroup orientation. The authors contend that such social identification effects are accentuated when people hold a fixed view of human character and attribute immutable dispositions to social groups. To these individuals, social identities are immutable, concrete entities capable of guiding self-conception and intergroup orientation. Social identification effects are attenuated when people hold a malleable view of human character and thus do not view social identities as fixed, concrete entities. The authors tested and found support for this contention in three studies that were conducted in the context of the Hong Kong 1997 political transition, and discussed the findings in terms of their implications for self-conceptions and the meaning of social identification.
Keywords
social identification, intergroup orientation, self-conception, social identity, social groups
Discipline
Personality and Social Contexts | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Volume
85
Issue
6
First Page
1147
Last Page
1160
ISSN
0022-3514
Identifier
10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1147
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Citation
HONG, Ying-Yi, CHAN, Gloria, CHIU, Chi-Yue, WONG, Rosanna Y. M., HANSEN, Ian G., LEE, Sau-Lai, TONG, Jennifer Yuk-Yue, & FU, Ho-Ying.(2003). How are social identities linked to self-conception and intergroup orientation? The moderating effect of implicit theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85(6), 1147-1160.
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.85.6.1147