Mixed individuals seek high-entitativity ingroups to reduce identity uncertainty

Evidence

7. Cognitive coherence and uncertainty reduction … Mixed individuals may increase identification with the ingroup that offers the clearest prototype and/or highest entitativity to reduce (self-concept) uncertainty. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 29

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s core question about whether protective solidarity’s homogenizing pressure lands differently on not-cleanly-fitting members — entitativity-seeking pressure is central to that dynamic. — connects to: Mixed-identity individuals reduce self-concept uncertainty by identifying with entitative groups — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 91; Different identity motives drive Mixed individuals toward different target groups. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 105; Uncertainty reduction pushes Mixed individuals toward whichever group offers the clearest prototype — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 86 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Mixed-identity individuals reduce self-concept uncertainty by identifying with entitative groups #corroborates (0.97) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 91
• Different identity motives drive Mixed individuals toward different target groups. #expands (0.72) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 105