Uncertainty–Identity Theory: Extreme Groups, Radical Behavior, and Authoritarian Leadership

Abstract

This article describes uncertainty-identity theory's analysis of how selfuncertainty may lead, through social identity and self-categorization processesAlthough society contains individuals, both human endeavor and the operation of human cognition tend to organize society into discrete social categories and human groups. The nature of such groups and their relationships to one another govern much of who we are, specifically our social identity, and our associated perceptions, attitudes, feelings and behaviors, as well as the way others perceive and treat us. Because groups and identity are so fundamental to social life and so consequential for individuals, people are highly motivated to belong to and be accepted by those groups that best satisfy these motivations.In this article we discuss one such motive: reduction of feelings of uncertainty about or reflecting on one's self and identity. The process of self-categorization that underpins group identification and generates group behaviors is uniquely

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