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LIT-1719: I Belong, therefore, I Exist: Ingroup Identification, Ingroup Entitativity, and Ingroup Bias

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1297) from the published version on co-author Yzerbyt's UCLouvain page; worth reading as the study that joins terror management to social identity, and as the clearest statement of the idea that a group seen as a lasting entity lets the self outlive death. Read it knowing that it is one small study of an effect, mortality salience, whose replicability is now in question, and that it does not test its own proposal against the worldview-defence reading.
Tagssocial-identity, motivation
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1297 — I Belong, therefore, I Exist: Ingroup Identification, Ingroup Entitativity, and Ingroup Bias

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Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V., Paladino, M.-P. & Sacchi, S. (2002). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(2), 135–143.

Read in full in NOTE-1297, from the published version on co-author Yzerbyt’s UCLouvain page.

Why this is here

Joins the legacy angle to the social one: death reminders enlarge the self into a group seen as lasting. For QUESTION-301 and TERM-096 (a group entity versus a category).

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