Group membership salience shifts flexibly across contexts and individuals

Evidence

Allport also clearly recognized how group affiliation affects the ways in which people value others and how individuals differ in their identification with their group (Brown & Zagefka). He remarked that “the sense of belonging is a highly personal matter. Even two members of the same actual in-group may view its composition in widely divergent ways” (p. 36). Moreover, he illustrated how the salience of group identity is alterable – how categorization can become recategorization – and how people can be members of multiple categories and possess multiple identities (Gaertner & Dovidio). For example, he wrote that “in-group memberships are not permanently fixed. For certain purposes an individual may affirm one category of membership, for other purposes a slightly larger category” (p. 35). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 111

Categorization

• XREF: Supports common in-group identity and recategorization mechanisms relevant to contact-theory interventions. — connects to: Perceived agency and patiency shift based on whom a target is paired with — Kurt Gray and Daniel M. Wegner, Moral Typecasting: Divergent…, 128; Outgroup salience boosts conscious ingroup identification when the ingroup is already salient. — Brandon Randolph-Seng, Darcy A. Reich, and Kenneth G. DeMarree, On the Nonconscious Antecedents of…, 47
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 111