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Levels of analysis and social identity

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Co11structive and Critical Advances

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Don1inic Abra1ns and Michael A: Hogg

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Northern Europe and the United States. Our prediction is that once rcsearch frces itsclf from thcse Westcrn-centric constraints, man y more and new areas of fruitful applicability will be opcncd up for the theory. ~. Tri,1ndis cl 11/. (1988) suggcst that individualism~ollcctivism is cor· rcbtcd with the task versus socio-cmotional aspects of group proccsscs (collcctivists bcing more socio-cmotional). J\lthough this scems plausible (sec section on task and socio-cmotional issues), wc bclievc that the corresponde nec between the two constructs may only be partial sin cc it is possible to imagine collcctivist groups which arc strongly task oriented (e.g. a tug-of-war team).

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Levels of analysis and social identity Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi nnd Willclll Doisc

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EXPLANATION, LEVELS OF

CATECOf\JZATION AND SELfo-CATEGOl\IZi\TION Tl·l r:CWY (SCT)

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