Does shared group membership increase social risk-taking?

该项目旨在发展一种社会冒险的社会身份模型，为更有效的公共安全宣传的发展提供信息。回复欺诈性邮件，投资传销，或者进行无保护措施的性行为——为什么人们明知这些行为是危险的，却依然坚持？这个项目提出，人们通过使用共享的群体成员身份作为“安全”的心理代理来评估风险。有人提出，当人们来自同一社会群体时，他们可能不太可能将其他人视为潜在危害的来源。该项目可能对警务、互联网安全、人群管理和疾病控制等领域的政策和实践产生影响。

This project aims to develop a social identity model of social risk-taking to inform the development of more effective public safety communications. Replying to a fraudulent email, investing in a pyramid scheme, or having unprotected sex – why do such behaviours persist when people know that they are dangerous? This project proposes that people evaluate risk by using shared group membership as a psychological proxy for ‘safe’. It is proposed that people may be less likely to see other people as a source of potential harm when they are from the same social group. This project may have implications for policy and practice in the areas of policing, internet security, crowd management and disease control.