Motives activated by social context go beyond similarity to drive further identification.

Evidence

So far, we have elaborated on how perceptions of similarity and dissimilarity with social categories guide Mixed individuals’ selfcategorization. Although (dis)similarity may be an important foundation for initial self-categorization, we suggest that social contexts increase the salience of certain motives and needs that may then guide Mixed individuals’ further social identification with one or the other social category and even feed back into their self-categorization. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 66

Categorization

• DEFINE: Cleanly distinguishes the SCT mechanism (similarity assessment) from the SIT mechanism (motive/need-based identification) that the chapter will then apply to Mixed individuals.
• QUESTION: Which specific motives and needs are being proposed? This paragraph promises but does not yet name them — worth tracking how the paper fleshes them out.
• XREF: connects to: Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194; 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; Multiple distinct motives drive racial-ethnic group identification. — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or…, 68 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Multiple distinct motives drive racial-ethnic group identification. #expands (0.90) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 68
• Different identity motives drive Mixed individuals toward different target groups. #expands (0.85) — Anna X. Huang, Jacqueline M. Chen, and Juliane Degner, Being One or the Other, Both or Neither, 105
• Contact with cross-cutting others increases the cognitive complexity of one’s social identity. #expands (0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 565
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• High social identification increases conformity to group norms through shared feeling and thinking #corroborates (0.72) — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt, 810