There is a lot of discussion about stereotypes in the media. On the one hand, many people believe that stereotypes provide a useful way of reasoning about a member of a group if you have no other ...

Although aspects of social identity theory are familiar to organizational psychologists, its elaboration, through self-categorization theory, of how social categorization and prototype-based ...

Individuals extract a wealth of information from another's face, including social categories such as sex, race, and emotion. The traditional view is that each social category dimension is represented ...

Exploring political behavior and polarization through the lens of social identity theory (SIT) provides insights into how individuals' self-concepts are shaped by their group memberships, influencing ...

The potential negative impact of games receives a lot of media coverage, yet new research illustrates how games can have a positive impact in our society. The researchers use a new approach in game ...