Group membership framing boosts helping and reduces pushing in emergency simulations.

Evidence

In a further study (N = 40), student participants were defined either as part of a crowd of shoppers (low-identification condition) or fans of the same football team (high-identification condition). As expected, there was significantly more help offered in high-identification (M = 0.70, SD = 0.29) than in low-identification (M = 0.48, SD = 0.27) conditions. As predicted, low-identification participants also pushed more (M = 18.39, SD = 12.20) than did high-identification participants (M = 9.26, SD = 8.54). — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 57

Categorization

• QUESTION: The simulated emergency pushes what mechanism is really engaged — genuine concern vs. conformity to salient norms — and how it scales to real life-threatening crowds?
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 57
• XREF: connects to: Emergency evacuation behaviour can be experimentally tested with a computer-simulated fire scenario. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 55; The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 126; Respectful responder communication builds shared identity that speeds emergency evacuation procedures. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 160 (+3 more)

Related

• Crowd identification predicts helping and reduces pushing in evacuation simulations. (similarity 0.91)
• Shared identity with a crowd increases helping and decreases pushing others aside. (similarity 0.85)
• Respectful responder communication builds shared identity that speeds emergency evacuation procedures. (similarity 0.83)
• A shared identity can emerge within a crowd only after an emergency begins. (similarity 0.83)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.83)
• Shared identity turns crowds from irrational mobs into solidarity-based adaptive resources (similarity 0.83)
• The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies (similarity 0.83)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.82)
• Emergency responders should deliberately cultivate shared identity with survivors. (similarity 0.82)
• Emergency evacuation behaviour can be experimentally tested with a computer-simulated fire scenario. (similarity 0.81)
• Shared identity can emerge rapidly during, not before, an emergency. (similarity 0.81)
• Crowds during disasters are a resource for support, not a panic problem. (similarity 0.81)
• The emergency itself, not an outgroup, can define group boundaries (similarity 0.81)
• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.80)
• Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Shared identity with a crowd increases helping and decreases pushing others aside. #corroborates (0.92) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 56
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. #expands (0.85) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 107
• Respectful responder communication builds shared identity that speeds emergency evacuation procedures. #expands (0.80) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 160
• The psychological crowd is an adaptive survival resource in emergencies #expands (0.75) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 126