Total AQ score taken from within the neurotypical population is found to correlate significantly negatively with the extent of identification shift associated with the 'Ganong effect' (i.e. the bias in categorization in the direction of a known word) [41].
A striking parallel can be drawn with findings by Johnson, Strand, and D'Imperio, (1999), who reported an auditory identification shift for a hood– hud continuum for listeners who merely imagined listening to a male or a female speaker.
Ego is defeated when an individual's primary locus of identification shifts to the Authentic Self.
Second, there is extensive evidence supporting the hypothesis that level of goal/action identification shifts with mood.
Moreover, there is extensive evidence supporting the hypothesis that level of goal/action identification shifts with mood.
Likewise, there is considerable evidence consistent with the hypothesis that level of goal/ action identification shifts in response to circumstances including mood state.
The control theory accounts hypothesize that level of goal/action identification shifts in response to circumstances in a functional way, and, thus, as a corollary, dysregulation of level of goal/action identification may be problematic.
There is considerable evidence consistent with the hypotheses that: (a) different levels of goal/action identifications have distinct functional effects, with abstract identifications aiding long-term goal pursuit, and concrete identifications more adaptive in difficult circumstances; (b) level of goal/action identification shifts adaptively to circumstances.
Second, the optimal level of goal/action identification depends upon specific circumstances, and level of goal/action identification shifts adaptively in response to context, including difficulty (Vallacher & Wegner, 1987) and mood state (Forgas, 2008), suggesting that level of goal/action identification is functionally regulated in non-disordered individuals.
Given that in healthy controls, negative mood is associated with a more concrete level of goal/action identification, this is indirect evidence that level of goal/action identification is dysregulated in GAD, although there has not been any direct test of how level of goal/action identification shifts in response to changing circumstances or mood state.
They found that if members of these groups identified with the primary care trusts in which they were working as well as their own professional group, dual identification shifted the members' focus to common, shared superordinate goals without blurring their professional group boundaries.
