Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyalty.
@article{vanVugt2004SocialIA,
title={Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyalty.},
author={Mark van Vugt and Claire M. Hart},
journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
year={2004},
volume={86 4},
pages={
585-98
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10734578}
}The results suggest that high identifiers' group loyalty is better explained by an extremely positive impression of their group membership (group perception) than by a justification of previous investments in the group (self-perception) or their adherence to a nonabandonment norm (norm perception).
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