Minority students with dual identities show more positive intergroup attitudes than assimilationists.

Evidence

To that end, a key element determining the impact of a dual identity on intergroup relations is likely what a dual identity signals – whether it is perceived as a sign of progress toward a desired goal or as a cue of threat. In terms of the former, as noted earlier, we found that minority college students value multiculturalism and hold it as an ideal for their institution (Dovidio, Gaertner, & Kafati, 2000). In this context, we found that a dual identity for minority students, one that reaffirmed their cultural heritage while recognizing their common university identity, predicted positive intergroup attitudes and institutional commitment. An assimilationist, university-only identity did not predict these positive orientations. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 593

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates and adds empirical grounding to the vault’s contact-theory claims by extending them to dual- vs assimilationist-identity effects.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 593