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The Social Identity Perspective
The historical development, metatheoretical background, and current state of the social identity perspective in social psychology are described. Although originally an analysis mainly of intergroup… Expand
The Challenge of Merging: Merger Patterns, Premerger Status, and Merger Support
- S. Giessner, G. Viki, S. Otten, D. Terry, S. Täuber
- Psychology, Medicine
- Personality & social psychology bulletin
- 1 March 2006
Employees of merging organizations often show resistance to the merger. The employees' support depends on the companies' premerger status and on the merger pattern. Based on an intergroup… Expand
Overlap of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Pictorial Measures of Self-Categorization
- T. Schubert, S. Otten
- Psychology
- 1 October 2002
Everyday language suggests that spatial metaphors are used to describe one's relation to a group and the relation between two groups. Building on previous work in the domain of interpersonal… Expand
Illegitimacy Moderates the Effects of Power on Approach
- J. Lammers, A. Galinsky, E. Gordijn, S. Otten
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 June 2008
A wealth of research has found that power leads to behavioral approach and action. Four experiments demonstrate that this link between power and approach is broken when the power relationship is… Expand
Overlapping Mental Representations of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Unraveling Self-Stereotyping and Self-Anchoring
- S. Otten, K. Epstude
- Psychology, Medicine
- Personality & social psychology bulletin
- 1 July 2006
Smith and collaborators presented strong response time evidence for overlapping mental representations of the self and relevant ingroups, and they interpreted their findings as reflecting that people… Expand
Evidence for implicit evaluative in-group bias: Affect-biased spontaneous trait inference in a minimal group paradigm.
- S. Otten, G. Moskowitz
- Psychology
- 2000
Mere categorization of individuals into two distinct social categories has been shown to elicit in-group favoritism. Positive differentiation, even of trivial groups, has been explained in terms of a… Expand
Intergroup relations : the role of motivation and emotion
- S. Otten, K. Sassenberg, T. Kessler
- Psychology
- 9 June 2009
Part 1. Classical Approaches to Motivation in Intergroup Relations M.B Brewer, Motivations Underlying Ingroup Identification: Optimal Distinctiveness and Beyond. R. Spears, J. Jetten, D. Scheepers,… Expand
Looking through the eyes of the powerful
- Joris Lammers, E. Gordijn, S. Otten
- Psychology
- 1 September 2008
Across four experiments, we test the idea that power decreases metastereotyping, and that this effect is mediated by reduced perspective taking. Metastereotypes refer to the beliefs that members of… Expand
An Integrative Model of Social Identification
- Ruth van Veelen, S. Otten, M. Cadinu, N. Hansen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Personality and social psychology review : an…
- 1 February 2016
Social identification denotes individuals’ psychological bond with their ingroup. It is an indispensable construct in research on intragroup and intergroup dynamics. Today’s understanding of social… Expand
Being different at work: How gender dissimilarity relates to social inclusion and absenteeism
- Wiebren S. Jansen, S. Otten, K. I. van der Zee
- Psychology
- 1 November 2017
We investigated how and when gender dissimilarity relates to two highly important individual work outcomes: social inclusion and absenteeism. We collected survey data among 397 employees from a… Expand