APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
National Essentialism: Exploring the Role of Familial Ties and Identity Fusion with the Nation
- Metodi Siromahov
Royal Holloway, University of London - Michael Buhrmester
University of Oxford - Ryan McKay
Royal Holloway, University of London
Abstract
Why do some people see their nation as an entity with a shared trans-generational essence? A series of three studies investigated the correlates of such intuitions about the nation-as-entity: identity fusion (a visceral sense of kinship), entitativity, and a generalised proneness to social-essentialist thinking that is not restricted to nationhood.
Social Cognition
