Multiple in-group categories can be cognitively represented in simplified or complex ways

Evidence

Social identity complexity pertains to the cognitive representation of one’s multiple in-group categories in more or less complex ways. Hence, if one’s need for distinctiveness is under threat, one may not, or not only, be inclined to seek greater exclusiveness surrounding the single category under threat but perhaps will hold more exclusive, simplified multiple in-group perceptions. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 578

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 578