Resolving Not to Quit: Evidence That Salient Group Memberships Increase Resilience in a Sensorimotor Task

There is evidence that the social groups to which people belong can be a source of resilience in challenging times. In this paper, we examine whether social group memberships can also increase resilience in the face of negative performance feedback by encouraging task persistence. In two experiments...

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Main Authors: Jodie Green, Tim Rees, Kim Peters, Mustafa Sarkar, S. Alexander Haslam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02579/full