{"id":1353,"date":"2018-12-12T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2018-12-12T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:22:09","slug":"social-identity-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/12\/12\/social-identity-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Identity Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do grits remind U.S. Southerners of home, while maple syrup does that for Canadians, and chocolate activates positive feelings for the Swiss? &#8220;Behind our seemingly nationalistic food preferences are the psychological processes that inform group identity, which, research shows, can change depending on our environment,&#8221; explains a <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/theres-a-name-for-that-social-identity-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pacific Standard<\/em>\u00a0article on social identity theory<\/a>. The brief article closes with &#8220;identities that govern seemingly innate experiences, such as the taste of food\u2014or even racial bias\u2014can be harnessed to create positive social change.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t provide any specifics, however. Hopefully future article will do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do grits remind U.S. Southerners of home, while maple syrup does that for Canadians, and chocolate activates positive feelings for the Swiss? &#8220;Behind our seemingly nationalistic food preferences are the psychological processes that inform group identity, which, research shows, can change depending on our environment,&#8221; explains a Pacific Standard\u00a0article on social identity theory. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[347,2051],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-identity","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}