A Mostly Speculative Social Identity Theory of Digital Identity

“Theories are a dime a dozen” (Ed Diener, personal communication) Bingley, W. J., Worthy, P., Wiles, J., & Haslam, S. A. (2026). A social identity theory of digital identity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 21(4), 346–382. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916261419813. Bingley and colleagues (2026) propose a new “social digital identity theory” (SDIT) to explain how social identities operate…