Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Social identity — the psychology of group membership — social identity and self-categorization theory, how people categorize themselves and others and when a group identity becomes salient, identification and its measurement, in-group bias and intergroup relations, rivalry, recategorization and common in-group identity, group-based emotion, crowds and fandom. What a group is, as ontology, is social-ontology; here it is how people come to see themselves and act as members (ADR-062).
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| QUESTION-297 | When the effects of trauma reach descendants who did not live through it, by which route do they travel: germline epigenetics, the womb, parenting, or a group’s narrative and identity; and on the identity route, does an ancestor’s injury become part of the descendant’s self? | The owner’s question of 2026-10-29, beside the legacy line: the past acting on later generations, where legacy is the living acting for them. Claims of epigenetic transmission of trauma rest on animal work (Dias and Ressler) and small human studies (Yehuda et al.), against a sceptical consensus that mammalian germline reprogramming blocks it. Meta-analyses find little general second- or third-generation harm among Holocaust survivors’ descendants. On the cultural route, a group’s past injury becomes part of its identity (chosen trauma, cultural trauma), which is the owner’s extended self running backward in time. | Open |
| QUESTION-298 | When fans of one club perceive their rivalry with another as reciprocated, do the rival’s fans in fact return it, and do the identity benefits of rivalry depend on the perception or on the fact? | Berendt and Uhrich (THEORY-1113) find that rivalry’s gains for fans run through perceived reciprocity, but they surveyed one side of each rivalry. CASE-098 needs the relation itself, a rivalry both sides carry. The study that would answer it pairs surveys of both clubs’ fans, and compares each side’s perceived reciprocity with the other side’s reported rivalry intensity. | Open |