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Recategorization and subgroup identification: predicting and preventing threats from common ingroups.

Richard J Crisp1, Catriona H Stone, Natalie R Hall

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. r.crisp@bham.ac.uk

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|December 31, 2005
PubMed
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Recategorizing groups into a common ingroup identity can increase bias for those highly committed to their subgroups. Maintaining subgroup salience within the superordinate group, however, reduces this bias, improving intergroup relations.

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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Group Identity

Background:

  • Recategorization into a superordinate category often improves intergroup relations.
  • However, recent studies show recategorization can sometimes increase bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the conditions under which recategorization increases intergroup bias.
  • To examine the role of subgroup commitment in moderating the effects of recategorization on bias.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments were conducted using explicit and implicit measures.
  • Participants' subgroup identification levels were assessed.
  • The salience of subgroups within a superordinate category was manipulated.

Main Results:

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  • Increased intergroup bias following recategorization was observed only in participants with high subgroup identification.
  • Maintaining subgroup salience within the superordinate group prevented bias increase in high identifiers.
  • This manipulation led to the lowest overall bias levels.

Conclusions:

  • High commitment to ingroup subgroups can lead to increased bias after recategorization.
  • The Common Ingroup Identity Model can explain these findings.
  • Strategies that maintain subgroup salience can mitigate negative effects of recategorization on intergroup bias.