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Today I shall be discussing how the psychological theory of social identity has an affect in eRepublik.
The social identity theory states that people form there own social groups and show favouritism to members of there groups, and, in turn, discriminate against other social groups and members outside of theirs.


With the establishment of alliances, eRepublik players are split into 2 different social groups: "Them" and "Us". Players who identify themselves in one alliance, show favouritism to others in their alliance, and discriminate to members in the other alliance, in some shape or form.
People who may not have had any ill feeling towards an eNation might start to form prejudices against them in an alliance shift, as long as he no longer feels part of his old social group, but accepts himself into his new one.

An example of this can be seen when "The County That Must Not Be Named" changed sides many years ago, and players who once called them Macedonia started to call them FYROM. (Or maybe it's because they wanted Greek damage, psychology isn't a real damage)!



So, what is the moral of the article? Well, social groups can be united in the case of a bigger "them group". A lot of arguments and disagreements in this game are caused by conflicting social groups. If we could unite them by creating a new out group, this game might be more enjoyable for everybody!

So, to create world peace, I present:





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Cheers,

Sai.