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Crossed categorization in common ingroup contexts.

Richard J Crisp1, Judi Walsh, Miles Hewstone

  • 1University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom. r.crip@bham.ac.uk

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|August 12, 2006
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A common ingroup context changes how people evaluate others with multiple social identities. This effect depends on how important those identities are to social inclusion.

Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Group Dynamics
  • Cross-Categorization Theory

Background:

  • Individuals often belong to multiple social groups.
  • Understanding how these multiple identities interact is key to social perception.
  • Previous models did not fully explain evaluation patterns across crossed categories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test if a common ingroup context moderates evaluations of individuals with crossed social categories.
  • To investigate the role of perceived importance of social categories in this moderation.
  • To integrate findings with existing models of multiple categorization.

Main Methods:

  • Three experiments were conducted using artificial and real social categories.
  • Evaluations of targets with crossed category memberships were assessed.

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  • The influence of a common ingroup context and perceived category importance was manipulated and measured.

    • Main Results:

    • A common ingroup context shifted evaluations from an additive pattern to a social inclusion pattern for artificial groups.
    • This moderation effect was observed when crossed groups were of low importance.
    • For high-importance crossed groups, the additive evaluation pattern persisted, regardless of common ingroup context.

    Conclusions:

    • The perceived importance of social categories significantly moderates the impact of common ingroup contexts on evaluations.
    • Findings support the integration of crossed categorization and common ingroup identity models.
    • This research clarifies how multiple social identities influence intergroup relations.