Shared identity and personal tie in influencing cooperative behavior

Shared Negative Experiences Lead to Identity Fusion via Personal Reflection

Across three studies, we examined the role of shared negative experiences in the formation of strong social bonds--identity fusion--previously associated with individuals' willingness to self-sacrifice for the sake of their groups. Studies 1 and 2 were correlational studies conducted on two different populations. In Study 1, we found that the extent to which Northern Irish Republicans and Union...

Personal Identity and Uploading

Objections to uploading may be parsed into substrate issues, dealing with the computer platform of upload and personal identity. This paper argues that the personal identity issues of uploading are no more or less challenging than those of bodily transfer often discussed in the philosophical literature. It is argued that what is important in personal identity involves both token and type identi...

Utilitarianism and Personal Identity

Understanding concordance in patient-physician relationships: personal and ethnic dimensions of shared identity.

PURPOSE Although concordance by race and sex in physician-patient relationships has been associated with patient ratings of better care, mechanisms through which concordance leads to better outcomes remains unknown. This investigation examined (1) whether patients' perceptions of similarity to their physicians predicted their ratings of quality of care and (2) whether perceived similarity was i...

Personal network integration: transitivity and homophily in strong-tie relations

This article combines studies of transitivity and homophily in an empirical analysis of personal network integration. Using a national sample of individual’s personal networks, the paper reveals that transitivity Ž . explains a majority of cases of network integration with two important caveats: 1 recent work on networks and social structure points to important structural constraints on persona...