Identities & Group Membership

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According to John Dovidio, Geoffrey Maruyama and Michele Alexander in an article published online in Journal of Social Issues (1998), individual's identities are shaped by their memberships in groups, and bacause people try to maintain a positive self-image, they are motivated to view the group or groups they belong to more favorably than other groups. This occurs even if there is no positive distinctiveness to the group to which one belo

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