Collectively experienced trauma makes victims identify as one group, motivating help

Evidence

As these stresses were experienced collectively, we reasoned that they would operate as a common fate. Indeed, level of symptoms predicted inclusion of the other in the self (IOS), and IOS predicted one-group representation of all children affected by the quake. IOS also predicted contact intentions, and one-group representation predicted helping intentions towards other affected children. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 99

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘altruism born of suffering’ literature and reciprocal patterns in the social identity approach to crowds. — connects to: Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 74; Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 72; Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 14 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 99

Related

• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.92)
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support (similarity 0.90)
• Survivors who experienced unity in an emergency also helped others. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.89)
• Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action. (similarity 0.88)
• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. (similarity 0.88)
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.88)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.88)
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.87)
• People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. (similarity 0.87)
• Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. (similarity 0.87)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.86)
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. (similarity 0.86)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.86)
• People act together because shared identity lets each expect others will join (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help. #exemplifies (0.95) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 47
• Disaster survivors who feel shared fate identify socially and give emotional support #exemplifies (0.92) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 73
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. #expands (0.90) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 14
• Expecting support from fellow survivors enables coordinated collective action. #responds-to (0.85) — John Drury and Evangelos Ntontis, A SOCIAL IDENTITY MODEL OF COLLECTIVE…, 22
• People feel emotional distress over harms to others merely sharing one salient group membership #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2266