Shared fate in danger makes strangers act as one group offering help.

Evidence

A basic principle of SCT (Turner, 1982, 1985; Turner et al., 1987, 1994) is that collective behaviour is possible when there is a shared social identity. Reicher’s (1984, 1987) research on the St Pauls riot showed that this principle could be used to explain normative crowd behaviour in novel situations. Subsequent research, again on riots, showed that the fact of sharing social identity with others in a novel and dangerous crowd event could be the basis of displaying solidarity towards them (Reicher, 1996). These points are relevant to the case of mass emergency behaviour, since here too there is a novel and dangerous crowd situation where there is a need for social support. The social identity model of collective behaviour in emergencies and disasters thus suggests that shared social identity is the basis of action to provide support to others; it adds that the basis of this shared identity is the common fate shared by those in an emergency. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 47

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the social identity (self-categorization) mechanism that the whole book rests on: common fate generates shared identity, which enables mutual support.
• XREF: The ‘therapeutic/altruistic community’ of disaster sociology (Fritz, Barton) here gets a psychological mechanism — likely a strong synthesis point connecting the disaster-community concept from the paragraph at location 44. — connects to: People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 14; Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 74; Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104 (+14 more)
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 47

Related

• Shared emergent identity from common fate explains collective support amid disasters (similarity 0.93)
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. (similarity 0.93)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. (similarity 0.93)
• A shared identity can emerge within a crowd only after an emergency begins. (similarity 0.91)
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. (similarity 0.91)
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared identity can emerge rapidly during, not before, an emergency. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared identity turns crowds from irrational mobs into solidarity-based adaptive resources (similarity 0.90)
• People act collectively in emergencies despite being conditioned toward individual self-interest. (similarity 0.90)
• Shared social identity produces adaptive psychosocial resilience that aids group survival in emergencies. (similarity 0.89)
• Social support in disasters ranges from individual acts to collective cooperation. (similarity 0.89)
• Shared social identity is the causal variable predicting solidarity among disaster strangers. (similarity 0.89)
• Emergency crowds can generate new social bonds among strangers. (similarity 0.89)
• Disaster survivors in a crowd describe intense unity with strangers. (similarity 0.89)
• Existing social bonds do not always explain emergency collective behaviour (similarity 0.89)

Broader Connections

• Shared fate converts a stranger crowd into a functioning group. #corroborates (0.93)
• Shared danger makes people feel close to strangers and motivates mutual help. #corroborates (0.92) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 74
• Shared danger of death heightens unity among strangers in an emergency. #corroborates (0.90) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104
• A psychological crowd forms from mere co-presence under shared threat. #corroborates (0.85) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 104
• Shared identity with a crowd increases helping and decreases pushing others aside. #corroborates (0.85) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 56
• Shared identity that enables crowd helping often emerges during an emergency rather than pre-existing. #expands (0.82) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 79
• Emergency crowds can generate new social bonds among strangers. #expands (0.80) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 13
• Shared danger dissolves in-group rivalries into common humanity #corroborates (0.80) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 66
• Solidarity among emergency survivors stems from perceiving strangers as oneself. #corroborates (0.78) — John Drury and Chris Cocking and Steve Reicher, Everyone for themselves? A comparative…, 14
• People act together because shared identity lets each expect others will join #expands (0.78) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 130
• Unrelated individuals cooperate when mutual help raises both survival odds #qualifies (0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 371
• Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal #qualifies (0.72)
• Most survivors in this mass emergency were strangers to one another #expands (0.72) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 68