Shared identity shifts over time track leadership structure growth and decline

Evidence

Thus, as the guards’ sense of shared social identity declined, so their leadership structure declined. Conversely, as a sense of shared identity amongst the prisoners increased, so their leadership structure increased. These parallel effects are consistent with the argument that leadership depends upon the existence of shared social identity (associated with a group that is functioning effectively), but they do not in and of themselves demonstrate the nature of the inter-connection. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 56

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leadership is impossible without a pre-existing or manufactured shared social identity — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 50; Leadership structure tracks the strength of shared social identity over time. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 56; Historiography reveals how group identity and primary belonging change over time (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Leadership structure tracks the strength of shared social identity over time. #corroborates (0.97) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 56
• Historiography reveals how group identity and primary belonging change over time #exemplifies (0.78)
• Leaders convert social identity into social reality by initiating group and societal structures #complicates (0.72) — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 118