This review provides a new integration of recent research that has formed the basis of a
social identity explanation of supportive collective behaviour among survivors in …

Drawing on social identity theory and self-categorization theory, we outline an approach to
sport psychology that understands groups not simply as features of sporting contexts but …

Accounts of the social meaning of policing and of the relationship between police and citizen
converge on the idea that police behaviour carries important identity-relevant information …

This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and
diplomacy. Sports diplomacy has previously been defined as an old but under-studied …

The issue of psychological empowerment in crowd events has important implications for
both theory and practice. Theoretically, the issue throws light on both intergroup conflict and …

Stereotyping is one of the biggest single issues in social psychology, but relatively little is
known about how and why stereotypes form. This is the first book to explore the process of …

In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around
contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive sociological analysis of an issue …

Why do people believe that violence is acceptable? In this article, the authors study people's
normative beliefs about the acceptability of violence to achieve social control (as a substitute …

Why would a football fan travel hundreds of miles to a city where their team is playing
without a match ticket? Why would they not wear the team's colours, and why might they …

Research on group identification has shown it to be a surprisingly weak predictor of
intentions to take large‐scale social action. The weak links may exist because researchers …