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Control Theories of Identity, Action, and Emotion: In Search of Testable Differences Between Affect Control Theory and Identity Control Theory

In: Purpose, Meaning, and Action

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  • Lynn Smith-Lovin
  • Dawn T. Robinson

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In the past two decades, a control model has come to dominate our view of how the peoples’ identities shape their actions and emotions. This chapter compares the two dominant control theories of identity and action, Affect Control Theory and Identity Control Theory. We note the strong common structure that underlies both the theories. We then discuss the implications of the differences between the way these two theories model the identity control process. Developing answers to research questions focused on these differences will further both research programs. We also hope that it will serve to move the study of identity away from a focus on the internal dynamics of a central actor who attempts to maintain his or her own identity, and move toward a focus on the social interaction and how its many elements operate together to maintain a definition of a situation.

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  • Lynn Smith-Lovin & Dawn T. Robinson, 2006. "Control Theories of Identity, Action, and Emotion: In Search of Testable Differences Between Affect Control Theory and Identity Control Theory," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kent A. McClelland & Thomas J. Fararo (ed.), Purpose, Meaning, and Action, chapter 7, pages 163-188, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-10809-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-10809-8_7
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