Impermeable group boundaries raise low-status identification but lower high-status identification.

Evidence

In the first 2 days of the study, guards and prisoners had similar levels of identification with their group. However, after the promotion, the identification of the prisoners increased dramatically while that of the guards declined. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 52

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the reader’s identity-leadership framing account for high-status groups whose the identity-leadership relation weakens when boundaries close, versus excluded-outgroup cohesion?
• XREF: connects to: Status-improvement strategies fail when targets belong to both high- and low-status groups — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 76; Raising identification with a high-status group need not lower lower-status identification. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 80; Perceived impermeability and illegitimacy of status differences deepen low-status group identification. (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived impermeability and illegitimacy of status differences deepen low-status group identification. #corroborates (0.88)
• Perceiving group boundaries as impermeable and status as illegitimate boosts ingroup favoritism #expands (0.76) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 974
• Disparaging a lower-status group psychologically uplifts the higher-status group #complicates (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 236