The document discusses the psychological concept of shared identity and how it relates to compliance. Shared identity involves creating a personal connection by implying common qualities or experiences to get someone to comply with a request. The document analyzes how this tactic is depicted between Rick Grimes and The Governor on The Walking Dead TV show. Specifically, before demanding Rick leave his prison camp, The Governor tells a tragic story about losing his wife to relate to Rick's own loss of his wife, in an attempt to establish shared identity and get Rick to comply.

1. And Shared Identity
style of compliance
By Cory Cox

2. Physcological basis
Compliance: The action or fact of complying with a request or demand. (Webster)
Shared Identity: Psychological concept of getting a person to comply with a request or
demand by first making a personal connection with such person by giving the illusion
of having like qualities or situations. ( The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior) written
by Steffan Sturmer.

3. How this concept
is depicted in the
popular T.V. show

4. Two adversaries in the post
apocalyptic world

5. Rick Grimes VS The Governor

6. .Rick Grimes: Before
the apocalypse he
was an honest sheriff
in a rural georgian
town. Portrayed in the
show as “the good
guy”
The Governor:
Before the
Apocalypse he
worked in an office
and had a boss
younger than he.
“Portrayed in the
show as a sadistic
murderer”

7. These two adversaries first clash over a territory dispute
which turns into multiple firefights and other armed
confrontations as well as abductions.

8. The governor demands that rick grimes
and his people leave their camp which is
an abandoned prison immediately or the
governor's people will attack and kill all
of them.

9. Before the Governor makes this egotistical demand
he first tells Rick Grimes a heart wrenching story of
how he lost his wife in a car accident before the
zombie apocalypse started.

10. This tactic brought on by the Governor is an
attempt at shared identity because of the fact Rick
Grimes too lost his wife in another form of tragic
event.

11. The Governor needs Rick and his people to
leave the prison in order to muscle them out of
the area in order to save face with his people
and keep himself in an authoritative position in
this new and lawless world.

12. References
Compliance: Webster dictionary
Shared Identity: The Psychology of Prosocial Behavior