Predicting self-categorization 1: Comparative fit
Theoretically this is a post that you all have been waiting for with bated breath. If self-categorization is as fundamental as we say, and is as implicated in as many […]
Tag Archives: Social identity
For the skeptics: If this ‘new psychology of leadership’ is so great, why are we only hearing about it now?
Heard promises like ours before? Talk of ‘solving’ the great leadership questions. Assurances of clarity in the face of an incoherent field. Sure, you say. We’ve heard this before. Fair […]
What’s wrong with “Team Australia”?
Team Australia. Sounds good doesn’t it? A noble notion that we are, or should be, all part of the one national team, with the same values, the same goals and […]
Will the real social identity please stand up?
Where does the social identity approach come from? Awkwardly, before we can answer that question we need to have a conversation about what we mean by ‘the social identity approach’. […]
Doing leadership: Introducing the three ‘R’s
We have started making claims that the social identity approach provides answers to common leadership questions and that these insights can be leveraged to strengthen leadership credentials. We will continue […]
Understanding power: authority and coercion
In a couple of our previous posts we have contrasted leadership with ‘authority’ and ‘coercion’. But what are these exactly? What do we mean when we say that a police […]
What foreign coaches can teach us about leadership and team performance
December in Australia is a time when everyone wastes far too much time watching cricket. Mostly this is an experience of national pride, where we rely on our cricketers to humble the English, […]
Event notice: The New Psychology of Leadership: From Theory to Practice
Are you going to be in Brisbane, Australia, next week? Or can you get there? If so, there is an excellent opportunity for you to get up close with one […]
Social identity in policing: from football hooligans to football fans
Early this year Australia was visited by Cliffard Stott, a UK based social identity theorist. I had the privilege of listening to him present on some of his latest work […]
Categorization: Knives, forks, spoons, and us
This post is our first that is wholly dedicated to a tenet of the social identity approach. That tenet is ‘cognitive categorization’. Why cognitive categorization? We need to have some […]
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