LGBT MBA students illustrate nested identity with school as superordinate and club as subgroup

Evidence

From these perspectives, narrow identification with one’s own group can be an obstacle to interracial cooperation among minorities. Consequently, one strategy for increasing cooperation involves offering competing groups a superordinate identity (Sherif, 1966). Gaertner, Mann, Murrell, & Dovidio (1989) found that creating a superordinate identity for two competing teams, by asking participants in both teams to create a unique name for themselves, significantly reduced inter-group bias in later group interaction. This recategorization strategy, however, has not always been effective at the societal scale. For example, the superordinate identity ‘’Democrats” failed to unite a racially fragmented constituency in the 2008 Democratic primary. Indeed, a Gallup poll in March 2008 showed that 28 percent of Clinton supporters and 19 percent of Obama supporters indicated they would vote for Republican candidate John McCain over their fellow democrat in the general election (Newport, 2008). — Chen-Bo Zhong, Adam D. Galinsky, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Negational racial identity and…, 9 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Collective identities like class, race, nation and gender positioned the individual self — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 188; Reframing outgroups as part of a shared superordinate identity reduces bias — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 564; Recognizing subgroup identities within a shared team identity reduces intergroup bias. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 577 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Superordinate identities reduce in-group bias in the lab but fail at societal scale. #complicates (0.75) — Chen-Bo Zhong, Adam D. Galinsky, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Negational racial identity and…, 9