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Does identity fusion give rise to the group – or the reverse? Politics- versus community-based groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Elias L. Khalil
Elias L. Khalil*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia. [email protected]://research.monash.edu/en/persons/elias-khalil
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Abstract

This comment questions Whitehouse's theory. This comment proffers that people first choose their identity and later employ shared facts from the past to cement it. This is true with respect to two kinds of group identity: politics- and community-based identities. Contrary to Whitehouse, neither shared biology nor shared experience from the past is necessary for the constitution of either kind.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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