Group members resist surrendering meaningful category identities during intergroup contact

Evidence

Even if eliminating category salience can seem theoretically advantageous, group memberships are frequently both subjectively and collectively meaningful and emotionally significant, and in such cases group members are reluctant to surrender their identity and distinctiveness (Brewer, 1991). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1817

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the naive colorblind/decatégorisation ideal within prior contact-theory claims; connects to the vault’s nuance on categorization approaches. — connects to: Public dialogue across identity lines counters the over-represented narrative of irreconcilable division; Intergroup and intragroup context boundaries blur for mixed-identity individuals — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 56