87 - Marilynn Brewer: Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Importance of Group Identity and Group Leads
Sociopath is someone who's without some of the normal social motives that drive the rest of it. What we're what may seem like selfishness is often on behalf of preserving privileges and status their group has so they're actually acting on behalf of a group even though to us it looks like selfishness. Conflict with another group is going to rally the troops and keep people and make group identity and group leads very salient but it is not a necessary condition for having a good group identity We can't hate all sorts of false groups yes that has been a big theme of mine ever since I did my dissertation in 1960s.
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