People with 'fused' identities are willing to die for their social group
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 12:14
in Psychology & Sociology
People who are 'fused' with a group - a bond even stronger than group identification - will take extreme actions to protect other group members, but not outsiders, conclude researchers in a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. This intense bond to a group may help explain the actions of suicide bombers...