Self-categorization theory, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 49 relations: Accentuation effect, Alexander Haslam, Altruism, Americans, Artist, Association football, Catholic Church, Classification, Clinical psychology, Cognition, Collective action, Common ingroup identity, Connectionism, Cooperation, Deindividuation, Depersonalization, Elaboration likelihood model, Empathy, Ethnocentrism, Fan (person), Germany, Group cohesiveness, Group polarization, Homogeneity and heterogeneity, Interpersonal attraction, Jerome Bruner, John Turner (psychologist), Leadership, Liverpool F.C., Manchester United F.C., Minimal group paradigm, Normative social influence, Personality, Physicist, Power (social and political), Prototype, Psychologist, Rugby union, Scientific method, Self-stereotyping, Social identity theory, Social norm, Social perception, Social proof, Social psychology, Stereotype, Taxonomy (biology), Team sport, Venn diagram.

Accentuation effect

Accentuation effect occurs when something (be it a person, place or thing) is placed into a category.

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Alexander Haslam

Stephen Alexander "Alex" Haslam (born 1962) is a professor of psychology and ARC Australian Laureate Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland.

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Altruism

Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals above oneself.

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Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Classification

Classification is usually understood to mean the allocation of objects to certain pre-existing classes or categories.

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Clinical psychology

Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Collective action

Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective.

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Common ingroup identity

The common ingroup identity model is a theoretical model proposed by Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio that outlines the processes through which intergroup bias may be reduced.

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Connectionism

Connectionism (coined by Edward Thorndike in the 1931) is the name of an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or artificial neural networks.

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Cooperation

Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English and, with a varied usage along time, coöperation) takes place when a group of organisms works or acts together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit.

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Deindividuation

Deindividuation is a concept in social psychology that is generally thought of as the loss of self-awareness in groups, although this is a matter of contention (see below).

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Depersonalization

Depersonalization is a dissociative phenomenon characterized by a subjective feeling of detachment from oneself, manifesting as a sense of disconnection from one's thoughts, emotions, sensations, or actions, and often accompanied by a feeling of observing oneself from an external perspective.

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Elaboration likelihood model

The elaboration likelihood model (ELM) of persuasion is a dual process theory describing the change of attitudes.

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Empathy

Empathy is generally described as the ability to take on another's perspective, to understand, feel, and possibly share and respond to their experience.

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Ethnocentrism

Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead of using the standards of the particular culture involved.

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Fan (person)

A fan or fanatic, sometimes also termed an aficionado or enthusiast, is a person who exhibits strong interest or admiration for something or somebody, such as a celebrity, a sport, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie, a video game or an entertainer.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Group cohesiveness

Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion or social cohesion, arises when bonds link members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole. Self-categorization theory and group cohesiveness are Majority–minority relations.

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Group polarization

In social psychology, group polarization refers to the tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.

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Homogeneity and heterogeneity

Homogeneity and heterogeneity are concepts relating to the uniformity of a substance, process or image.

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Interpersonal attraction

Interpersonal attraction, as a part of social psychology, is the study of the attraction between people which leads to the development of platonic or romantic relationships.

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Jerome Bruner

Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology.

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John Turner (psychologist)

John Charles Turner (7 September 1947 – 24 July 2011) was a British social psychologist who, along with colleagues, developed the self-categorization theory.

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Leadership

Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Self-categorization theory and Leadership are Majority–minority relations.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United (often stylised as Man Utd), or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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Minimal group paradigm

The minimal group paradigm is a method employed in social psychology.

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Normative social influence is a type of social influence that leads to conformity.

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Personality

Personality is any person's collection of interrelated behavioral, cognitive and emotional patterns that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life. Self-categorization theory and Personality are Conceptions of self.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Power (social and political)

In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Self-categorization theory and power (social and political) are Majority–minority relations.

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Prototype

A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.

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Psychologist

A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior.

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Rugby union

Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Scientific method

The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.

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Self-stereotyping

In social psychology, self-stereotyping (or autostereotyping) is a process by which an individual integrates and internalizes commonly held characterizations (i.e. stereotypes or prototypes) of an in-group into their self-concept.

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Social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group.

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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.

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Social perception (or interpersonal perception) is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people as sovereign personalities.

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Social proof (or informational social influence) is a psychological and social phenomenon wherein people copy the actions of others in choosing how to behave in a given situation.

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Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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Team sport

A team sport is a type of sport where the fundamental nature of the game or sport requires the participation of multiple individuals working together as a team, and it is inherently impossible or highly impractical to execute the sport as a single-player endeavour.

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Venn diagram

A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-categorization_theory

Also known as Self categorization theory.