- The group engagement model: Procedural justice, social identity, and cooperative behavior TYLER Tom R. (1) ; BLADER Steven L. (2) ; Personality and social psychology review 2003, vol. 7, no 4 (119 p.)
The group engagement model argues that groups benefit when the people within them engage themselves in the group, and groups are particulary benefited when that engagement is based on internal motivations because cooperation does not then depend on the ability of the group to utilize incentives or sanctions. This leaves open the question of how to best encourage such internal motivation (Tyler & Blander, 2003).
It is the development and maintenance of a favorable identity that most strongly influences cooperation
