Internal egalitarian motives track social identity, not fixed personality traits.

Evidence

Crandall et al. (2002) found that as students became less identified with their hometowns and old high school, and more identified with the university, their internal motives to suppress prejudice increased. In this case, the “internal motives to suppress prejudice” function less like a personality variable and more as an indicator that people are trying to fit themselves into local group norms. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1925

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates internal-versus-external motivation framing in traditional prejudice research; relevant to the contact-theory reassessment since internalized egalitarianism is often treated as a stable disposition. — connects to: Social status, not individual choice, determines most of any persona — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 283