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Cognitive processes and social identity through focused introspection
Author(s) -
Zavalloni Marisa
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420010206
Subject(s) - introspection , psychology , social psychology , identity (music) , social identity theory , representation (politics) , cognition , group (periodic table) , social group , personal identity , social identity approach , cognitive psychology , social cognition , self concept , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , neuroscience , politics , political science , acoustics , law
A method is presented to explore, empirically, patterns of social and personal identity: the social identity inventory (SII). The SII is based on free associations describing a person's principal group memberships (first order data). The responses obtained are used as stimuli to generate ‘second order data’ through focused introspection. The results reveal patterns of relationship between self‐representation and group representation, the differential probability of different group memberships to elicit self‐representations, and the cognitive processes underlying the natural represen‐tations of group memberships.