Abstract We examine the historical effects of ethnic and racial diversification among legislators on identity group mobilization hiring nonwhite lobbyists. propose that encouraged groups to lobby, these hired lobbyists who reflected their members’ identities, all interests also identities new legislative targets. apply a Bayesian estimation approach infer were active in American states over sev...

In this study we examined how perceived group norm and group identity influence individual cooperative behavior in a public goods dilemma across cultural settings. Six hundred and eight students in the United States and People’s Republic of China participated in a laboratory experiment in which group norm and group identity were manipulated and the individual cultural orientations of idiocentri...

history means research on events that at a certain time have been taken into account, observed and kept in mind by researchers and has built a structure of the story about same events. reality is greater than history and in terms of number exceeds it highly. this leads into identity generating. in this sense, identity is a criterion that historical event can be studied based on it. as we speak ...

the present study is aimed at assessing the state of national identity among female students of ahwaz islamic azad university and explores the social factors affecting upon it. the statistical society consisted of 8532 students at the three levels of associate diploma undergraduate and master degrees. the research method in this study is a “survey” and collection of data has been carried out by...

This paper uses the conceptual apparatus of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy to tackle a foundational issue in the philosophical literature on group identity, namely, the problem of difference. This problem suggests that any appeal to a collective identity is oppressive because it imposes a shared identity on the members of a group and suppresses the internal differences of the group. I develop ...

This study examined the linkages between identity formation and romantic attachment in an ethnically diverse sample of high school (n=189) and college students (n=324). Individuals in the foreclosed identity status group had significantly lower relationship avoidance scores than the diffused identity status group, and the foreclosed group had significantly lower relationship anxiety scores than...