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Group and individual as complementary conceptual categories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton*
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Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1020. hblanton@gmail.com http://blanton.socialpsychology.org/
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Abstract

Baumeister et al. depart from self-theories that contrast the psychology of the group with the psychology of the individual by considering how differentiated identities further collective interests. In concert with Deviance Regulation Theory, their framework offers a foundation for predicting the reward and punishment contingencies that will help groups function as more than the sum of their parts.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e141
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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