Observing others’ behaviour shapes one’s own behaviour most when shared identity is high.

Evidence

Overall, the predicted moderation effect was significant. As Figure 3 shows, the links between observed coordinated social support and both providing emotional social support and providing coordinated social support were stronger amongst the high-identifiers than amongst low-identifiers. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 131

Categorization

• XREF: Sits awkwardly against Paragraph [128], where observation predicted outcomes more strongly than shared identification — a tension worth chasing. — connects to: Witnessing identity-mates panic or flee can spread that behaviour through crowds — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 17; Observing others’ supportive behaviour predicted one’s own supportive behaviour. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 128; Shared social identity both causes group behaviour and is caused by it. (+5 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 131

Related

• Observing others give support increases one’s own support giving mainly when identification is high (similarity 0.93)
• The social-identification hypothesis predicts observation links. (similarity 0.89)
• Observing others’ supportive behaviour predicted one’s own supportive behaviour. (similarity 0.88)
• Shared identity with a crowd increases helping and decreases pushing others aside. (similarity 0.84)
• Witnessing identity-mates panic or flee can spread that behaviour through crowds (similarity 0.84)
• Shared social identity both causes group behaviour and is caused by it. (similarity 0.82)
• Shared identity in crowds produces solidarity and expected mutual support. (similarity 0.82)
• Shared identity generates expectations of support and trust among group members (similarity 0.81)
• People act together because shared identity lets each expect others will join (similarity 0.80)
• Observing others act together drives disaster solidarity more than identification (similarity 0.80)
• Crowd density lowers felt safety only for those weakly identifying with the crowd. (similarity 0.80)
• Collective coordination and efficacy depend on others’ co-action, unlike one-to-one support. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Shared social identity both causes group behaviour and is caused by it. #complicates (0.72)
• People act together because shared identity lets each expect others will join #corroborates (0.72) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 130
• Shared identity generates expectations of support and trust among group members #corroborates (0.70) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 16
• Eliminating group salience backfires because identity is meaningful and perceptually unavoidable #complicates (0.70)