Reactions to the O. J. Simpson Verdict: “Mindless Tribalism” or Motivated Inference Processes?

Newman, Leonard S.; Duff, Kimberley J.; Schnopp-Wyatt, Nicole; Brock, Bradley; Hoffman, Yonit

doi:10.1111/0022-4537.00034

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“…The more self-important and salient an identity, the more anticipatory and consequent self-evaluation and self-censure will arise from it, and this self-evaluating and self-censuring provide a motivational basis for regulating cognition and behavior (Bandura 2001). Thus Newman et al (1997) found that, among black females, perceptions of O. J. Simpson's innocence or guilt in his sensationalized murder trial were affected by the relative salience of a black versus female identity among those persons. Bolton and Reed (2004) also found that judgments rooted in more selfimportant and salient identities were 'stickier', that is, more resistant to change, than judgments rooted in weaker and less salient identities.…”

Section: Identity Self-importance and Saliencementioning

confidence: 98%

Virtue in Organizations: Moral Identity as a Foundation for Moral Agency

Weaver

2006

Organization Studies

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Framing issues of organizational ethics in terms of virtues and moral agency (rather than in terms of rules and ethical behavior) has implications for the way social science addresses matters of morality in organizations. In particular, attending to matters of virtue and moral agency directs attention to the moral identity, or self-concept, of persons, and to the circumstances that influence self-identity. This article develops parallels between philosophical theories of virtue and the concept of moral identity as developed in social cognitive identity theory. Explicating notions of virtue and moral agency in terms of social cognitive identity theory, in turn, helps direct attention to a range of factors—including both organizational and extraorganizational, macro-cultural ones—that can foster or inhibit moral agency in organizations.

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Section: Identity Self-importance and Saliencementioning

confidence: 98%

Virtue in Organizations: Moral Identity as a Foundation for Moral Agency

Weaver

2006

Organization Studies

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“…For example, black women for whom gender (ethnic) identity was salient had more unfavorable (favorable) perceptions of O.J. Simpson's innocence (Newman et al 1997). Furthermore, a recent study of women's affirmative action judgments demonstrates that the heightening of the salience of an identity increases the alignment of a person's attitudes with the membership group (Cohen and Reed 2001).…”

Section: Identity-based Judgmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sticky Priors: The Perseverance of Identity Effects on Judgment

Bolton

Reed

2004

Journal of Marketing Research

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This research examines the perseverance of identity-based judgments by exploring the effectiveness of various corrective procedures that are intended to neutralize identity effects on judgment. The authors explore these effects in a series of studies that involve different kinds of identities (e.g., parent, teenager, businessperson, environmentalist) linked to different objects and issues (e.g., Internet censorship, pollution credits, electronic books). Moreover, they test the effectiveness of various corrective procedures, including feature-based analysis, counterfactual reasoning, counteridentification, and social influence. The authors find that identity-driven thinking leads to judgment that resists change, that is, a procedural bias or "sticky prior" in favor of an initial identity-based judgment. The findings attest to both the power of identity and the efficacy of analytic and nonanalytic corrective techniques.

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Identity salience and the influence of differential activation of the social self-schema on advertising response.

Forehand¹,

Deshpandé²,

Reed³

2002

Journal of Applied Psychology

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The authors examined how identity primes and social distinctiveness influence identity salience (i.e., the activation of a social identity within an individual's social self-schema) and subsequent responses to targeted advertising. Across 2 studies, individuals who were exposed to an identity prime (an ad element that directs attention to the individual's social identity) and who were socially distinctive (minorities in the immediate social context) expressed systematically different evaluations of spokespersons and the advertisements that featured them. Specifically, Asian (Caucasian) participants responded most positively (negatively) to Asian spokespeople and Asian-targeted advertising when the participants were both primed and socially distinctive. No main effects of identity primes or social distinctiveness were found. The implications of these findings for identity theory, advertising practice, and intervention communications are discussed.

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Reactions to the O. J. Simpson Verdict: “Mindless Tribalism” or Motivated Inference Processes?

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Virtue in Organizations: Moral Identity as a Foundation for Moral Agency

Virtue in Organizations: Moral Identity as a Foundation for Moral Agency

Sticky Priors: The Perseverance of Identity Effects on Judgment

Identity salience and the influence of differential activation of the social self-schema on advertising response.

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