Ingroup rejection lowers belonging yet paradoxically heightens the need for it

Evidence

Acceptance threat may be elicited by experiences of identity denial (e.g., to be perceived as not ‘Black enough’ or not ‘really Asian’; Campion 2019; Chen et al. 2019; Franco et al. 2016). This form of exclusion or rejection from a group may decrease Mixed individuals’ feelings of belonging to this group (Franco et al. 2021), which may in turn increase the need for it (Williams and Nida 2011). Ostracized individuals have been shown to try to reclaim belongingness by gaining re-inclusion in the excluding group (Williams 2007). — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 118

Categorization

• XREF: Reverse dynamic to the entitativity-pressure thesis — being rejected from an exclusive group can intensify rather than dissolve the desire to belong to it. — connects to: Identity denial may make mixed-race people shift identification to a different ingroup — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 119; Concealability of an identity and its normative status shape mixed-identity processes. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 125; The need to belong sometimes shows null or inverse effects on extremism. — Lea Echelmeyer, Anne-Marie Slotboom, and Frank Weerman, The Putative Effect of Identity on…, 237 (+1 more)

Related

• Identity denial lowers belonging yet raises the need for the group (similarity 0.94)
• Identity denial decreases belonging, then increases effort to regain inclusion in the excluding group. (similarity 0.94)
• Identity denial may make mixed-race people shift identification to a different ingroup (similarity 0.87)
• Mixed-identity members may exit a rejecting group rather than fight for inclusion (similarity 0.84)
• The need to belong sometimes shows null or inverse effects on extremism. (similarity 0.82)
• Mixed individuals face recurring identity questions, denials of belonging, and family pressures to choose (similarity 0.82)
• Identity invalidation by mono-racial others shapes mixed individuals’ self-definition (similarity 0.81)
• Others’ questioning and ingroup invalidation force Mixed individuals into chronic self-concept uncertainty (similarity 0.80)
• Shared discrimination or invalidation experiences shape Mixed individuals’ felt similarity to groups. (similarity 0.80)
• Accepting relationships with out-group members model new identity structures for exiting extremists. (similarity 0.80)
• Mixed individuals’ identity choices are frequently invalidated by mono-racial others. (similarity 0.79)
• Uncertainty reduction may push mixed-race people toward the most entitative available group. (similarity 0.79)
• Identity threats named by social identity research split into individual versus group-level types (similarity 0.79)
• Some identity needs reduce rather than increase violent extremism (similarity 0.79)
• Concealability of an identity and its normative status shape mixed-identity processes. (similarity 0.79)