Responding to self-conceptual uncertainty: Orthodoxy, diversity, and social identity in groups and society

应对自我概念的不确定性：群体和社会中的正统、多样性和社会认同

• 批准号: DP0449982
• 负责人: Prof Mike Hogg
• 金额: $ 14.94万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0449982
• 关键词: Responding; self; conceptual; uncertainty; Orthodoxy

Some groups in society are ethnocentric and xenophobic, embracing orthodoxy, homogeneity and hierarchy. They suppress diversity and dissent. Other groups embrace diversity, and are wary of homogeneity and hierarchy. Project explores the social psychology of identity and group membership, to answer the question why some groups are orthodox whereas others are diverse. Uncertainty about one's group identity is aversive; automatically motivating identification with groups that are distinct entities with sharp boundaries, consensual properties, and homogeneous membership. However, internally diverse groups can also be distinct (often better functioning) entities. Buffering of automatic reactions to uncertainty may favour diverse over orthodox groups.

社会上的一些群体具有民族中心主义和仇外心理，拥护正统观念、同质性和等级制度。他们压制多样性和异议。其他群体拥抱多样性，并对同质性和等级制度持谨慎态度。项目探讨了身份和群体成员身份的社会心理学，以回答为什么有些群体是正统的而另一些群体是多元化的问题。一个人的群体身份的不确定性是令人厌恶的；自动激发对具有清晰边界、共识属性和同质成员资格的不同实体的群体的认同。然而，内部多元化的群体也可以是不同的（通常运作得更好）实体。对不确定性的自动反应的缓冲可能有利于多元化而不是正统群体。