title: Humans are not the Borg: Personal and social selves function as components in a unified self-system.
abstract: Does joining groups trigger a cascade of psychological processes that can result in a loss of individuality and lead to such outcomes as social loafing and poor decision-making? Rather than privileging the self comprising primarily individual qualities as the "true self," a multilevel, multicomponent approach suggests that, in most cases, personal and collective identities are integrated and mutually sustaining.
authors.affiliation: Jepson School of Leadership Studies,University of Richmond,Richmond,VA 23173.dforsyth@richmond.eduhttps://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~dforsyth/.
authors.forename: Donelson R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Forsyth
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D012919:Social Behavior