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Dr Pamela Pensini

Dr Pamela Pensini. Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) Positive Distinctiveness What‘s required for positive distinctiveness depends on type of ingroup identification (Pensini, Caltabiano & Slugoski, in press) Influences behaviour

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Dr Pamela Pensini

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  1. Dr Pamela Pensini Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) Positive Distinctiveness • What‘s required for positive distinctiveness depends on type of ingroup identification (Pensini, Caltabiano & Slugoski, in press) • Influences behaviour • Roccas et al. (2004; 2006): Glorification, More critical ingroup attachment • Glorification attachment: retributive action that was self-serving, maintained intergroup heirarchy • More critical attachment: retributive action that was more cooperative • Replication? Other domains?

  2. Dr Pamela Pensini Environmental crisis: Intergroup perspective „Catching-up Justice“ • Countries that industrialised early Vs later (e.g. Australia, Germany Vs China, India) • Perceptions about „allowing“ this development to occur • Conflict beween transnational equity and transgenerational equity • Role of group-based, moral emotions (e.g. collective guilt), responsibility, . . .

  3. Anthropomorphism • Assigning human characteristics to non-humans • Why does it occur?? • Moralises the target? • Need to understand the world (effectance motivation)? • Increasing connectedness? • Relationships with empathy, well-being, environmental orientaions, . . . • The inverse of Anthropomorphism: Dehumanisation • Effect of status differences between groups Dr Pamela Pensini

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