- Affective response(what gets influenced by the drives behind pretense)
- Your emotional or feeling-based reaction to something, as opposed to your rational or logical reaction.
- Empathy
- Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person—essentially putting yourself in their shoes to grasp what they're experiencing emotionally. It means recognizing someone's emotions and caring about their experience, rather than just knowing about their situation intellectually. Empathy helps us connect with others, communicate with compassion, and respond to people's needs in meaningful ways.
- Group boundaries(what gets activated by similarity cues)
- The invisible lines that separate 'us' from 'them'—the distinction people make between members of their own group and people outside it.
- Similarity cues(as triggers that prompt empathetic responses)
- Signs or signals that make you notice ways that another person is like you (similar appearance, background, beliefs, etc.).
- Social identity theory(the main concept being discussed)
- A theory explaining that people partly define themselves by the groups they belong to, and this group membership affects how they treat others—favoring those in their group and sometimes discriminating against outsiders.
- Tajfel and Turner(the statement references their research)
- Two social psychologists who developed an influential theory about how people form groups and treat others based on group membership; they showed that people naturally favor their own groups even when the groups are randomly assigned.
- identity politics
- A politics resting on the experience of the subject within social structures that generate injustice, and on the possibility of a shared, more authentic or self-determined alternative.