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The main assumption underlying this study is the widely acknowledged and empirically confirmed principle that self-system has a crucial role in social information processing. We are particularly concerned with relationships between cognitive representations of the self and the tendency to categorize other people into groups and categories. Our theoretical stand-point is rooted in a cognitive framework, such as Markus’ self-schema theory, and Fiske’s and her co-workers’ cognitive model of impression formation, but also we are going to take into account the implications of Tajfel and Turner’s social identity theory. The starting point for the reasoning presented here is Jarymowicz’s conceptualization of Self and We as cognitive schemata, distinct from other schemata, and then her interpretation of personal and social identity.
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Kwiatkowska, A. (1995). Cognitive Distinctness of Self — We — Others Schemata and the Tendency to Social Categorization. In: Oosterwegel, A., Wicklund, R.A. (eds) The Self in European and North American Culture: Development and Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0331-2_19
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