S/PS/16. The cognitive contents of social and personal identities as investigated by the modified replication study

The modified replication of Bettencourt & Humes (1999) experiment investigates whether individuals cognitive representations of social identity differ in content from the representations of their personal identity. The results showed differences between participants qualitative descriptions of their social and personal identities. Traits and emotions were more often listed in personal identity representations, which is inconsistent with the results of the original study. Similar to Bettencourt & Humes (1999) results, values, affiliations and other membership were more often listed in social identity representations.