Three studies consider the implicit bystander effect in the light of recent advances in social identity approaches to helping. Drawing on the social identity model of deindividuation effects we argue that the implicit bystander effect is shaped not by the number of others imagined, but by who those others are imagined to be. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that, when group membership is primed, inc...

A number of previous papers explored the notion of identity-based group signature. We present a generic construction of identity-based group signatures. Our construction is based on the Naor transformation of a identity-based signature out of an identity-based encryption, adjusted to hierarchical identity-based encryption. We identify sufficient conditions on the underlying HIBE so that the sch...