Social Identity Theory: Your Group Rules, Others Drool
Social identity theory, developed by Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s, argues that our sense of self is shaped more by the groups we belong to than by individual psychology. The podcast unpacks how this theory explains everything from sports rivalries to fascism, using humor and
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