TY - JOUR

T1 - Social identity, group processes, and helping in emergencies

AU - Levine, Mark

AU - Manning, Rachel

PY - 2013/1/1

Y1 - 2013/1/1

N2 - Using insights from a review of recent research on social identity approaches to helping, the Chapter sets out four key elements of a social identity approach to helping in emergencies: the salience of social identity, the boundaries of social identity, the contents of social identity, and the strategic interests of social identity. Evidence that illustrates the impact of social identity processes on group size and helping, which has traditionally focused on the inhibition of helping in the presence of others, is then reviewed. Finally, recent developments in the literature on intergroup emotions are considered, and their impact on a social identity approach to helping in emergencies is explored, highlighting the relatively neglected social identity relationship between bystanders and perpetrators. The review concludes by considering the current state of knowledge of a social identity approach to helping in emergencies, and identifies important questions that remain to be addressed.

AB - Using insights from a review of recent research on social identity approaches to helping, the Chapter sets out four key elements of a social identity approach to helping in emergencies: the salience of social identity, the boundaries of social identity, the contents of social identity, and the strategic interests of social identity. Evidence that illustrates the impact of social identity processes on group size and helping, which has traditionally focused on the inhibition of helping in the presence of others, is then reviewed. Finally, recent developments in the literature on intergroup emotions are considered, and their impact on a social identity approach to helping in emergencies is explored, highlighting the relatively neglected social identity relationship between bystanders and perpetrators. The review concludes by considering the current state of knowledge of a social identity approach to helping in emergencies, and identifies important questions that remain to be addressed.

KW - Bystander intervention

KW - Emergency intervention

KW - Groups

KW - Helping

KW - Prosocial behaviour

KW - Social identity

U2 - 10.1080/10463283.2014.892318

DO - 10.1080/10463283.2014.892318

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:84896458255

VL - 24

SP - 225

EP - 251

JO - European Review of Social Psychology

JF - European Review of Social Psychology

SN - 1046-3283

IS - 1

ER -