A social identity analysis of COVID-19

Jetten, Jolanda; Reicher, Stephen D.; Haslam, Alexander S; Cruwys, Tegan

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A social identity analysis of COVID-19

Date

2020

Authors

Jetten, Jolanda

Reicher, Stephen D.

Haslam, Alexander S

Cruwys, Tegan

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Abstract

Plague was the concern of all of us…. Thus, for example, a feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves suddenly became a feeling in which all shared alike and – together with fear – the greatest affliction of the long period of exile that lay ahead. (Camus, The Plague, 1947, p. 61, emphasis added)