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Working Definition:
Assuming the perspective or point of view of someone or something else.
Disciplinary Definitions:
Identification: The acquisition, as characteristics of the self, of personality characteristics perceived to be part of others (e.g., parents). Pervin & John, Personality: Theory and Research, 565
"A core concept in pyschoanalytic theory denoting the process through which the subject assimilates aspects of others (objects) and constitutes its personality from the resulting products" (Harré & Lamb, The Dictionary of Personality and Social Pyschology, 1986, 173).
"Identification is also an important concept in work on group relations (Turner 1984). Thebasic assumption of social identity theory is that people identify themselves and others by the groups to which they belong and that people are in consequence motivated to favor their ingoup at the expense of the outgroup" (Harré & Lamb, The Dictionary of Personality and Social Pyschology,1986, 174).
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