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LIT-1735: Identity fusion: The interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior

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StatusActive — read in full 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1256) from the published version on the site of co-author Gómez's IDENFUSION group at UNED; worth reading as the record's closest empirical work to the owner's thesis (CLAIM-491): a measured self–group overlap in which the personal self is kept, not depersonalized, and in which a challenge to the personal self raises willingness to fight and die for the group. Self-reported intentions, Spanish students only.
Tagssocial-identity, altruism, self
Cited as “grounds” byCLAIM-491 — No action is selfless in the sense of aiming at a good that is no self's: what is called selflessness, collectivist or altruistic, is concern for the good of a self extended to include others or a group, so collectivism is self-interest on a larger self-identity
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1256 — Identity fusion: The interplay of personal and social identities in extreme group behavior

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Swann, W. B., Jr., Gómez, Á., Seyle, D. C., Morales, J. F. & Huici, C. (2009). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(5), 995–1011.

Read in full in NOTE-1256, from the published version.

Why this is here

It contradicts self-categorization theory’s functional antagonism (NOTE-1253) and is the strongest empirical form of the owner’s thesis that group sacrifice is self-interest on an enlarged self (CLAIM-491).

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