Majority members contrast with in-groups while minorities assimilate with them

Evidence

In research that complements this reasoning, Brewer and Weber (1994) have provided a useful discussion of the activation of intragroup or intergroup assimilation or contrast comparison processes as a function of the perceiver’s in-group or out-group membership status in majority or minority groups. Their research revealed that majority group members tended show contrast effects in self-evaluative comparisons with in-group members, whereas members of minority groups were more likely to exhibit assimilation with fellow minority group members and contrast with out-group (majority) members. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1392

Their research revealed that majority group members tended show contrast effects in self-evaluative comparisons with in-group members, whereas members of minority groups were more likely to exhibit assimilation with fellow minority group members and contrast with out-group (majority) members. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1392

Categorization

• XREF: An asymmetry between majority and minority cognitive styles that could feed the reader’s thread on how group status shapes perception of out-groups. — connects to: Quiescent subordinate groups show less ethnocentrism until questioning their low-status identity reignites resource conflict. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2698
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1392