Social attraction, personal attraction, and self-categorization: a field study

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Title: Social attraction, personal attraction, and self-categorization: a field study
Author(s): Hogg, Michael A.; Hardie, Elizabeth A.
Abstract: A distinction based on social identity theory and self-categorization theory is made between depersonalized (i.e., group prototypical, stereotypical) social attraction and idiosyncratic personal attraction. Only the former; as the affective component of group cohesiveness, is considered to be related to group belongingness. A questionnaire administered after a training session to 28 members of an Australian football team supported the hypotheses. As predicted, group prototypicality was significantly more closely related to social attraction and to social (group-based) popularity than to personal attraction and personal (non-group-based) popularity. Furthermore, members who were more strongly identified with the team (e.g., rated themselves as highly prototypical) employed prototypicality as a stronger basis for social attraction than other members did.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletins, Vol. 17, no. 2 (Apr 1991), p. 175-180
Publication year: 1991
Keyword(s): Belonging; Field studies; Interpersonal attraction; Psychological group formation; Self-categorisation; Social attraction; Social identity
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISSN: 0146-1672
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014616729101700209
Peer reviewed