Threats can increase ingroup identification, not merely follow from it

Evidence

Some experimental evidence has shown that threats increase identification (Jetten, Branscombe, Schmitt, & Spears, 2001) and therefore the relationship between identification and intergroup threat should be examined experimentally to determine the direction of causality. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes, 126

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the reader’s MOC thread directly: evidence that threat precedes heightened identification supports the membrane-plasticity hypothesis over reading identity-assertion as pre-constituted. — connects to: Ingroup identification causally precedes intergroup threat — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 151

Related

• Ingroup identification causally precedes intergroup threat (similarity 0.92)
• Group-based identity forces precede realistic and symbolic threat perception (similarity 0.86)
• Ingroup identification strength moderates whether group-level or individual-level threats drive attitudes. (similarity 0.86)
• Either ingroup or outgroup salience alone may suffice to increase social identification. (similarity 0.85)
• Stereotypes and identification precede threats, whose attitude effects run through emotions. (similarity 0.84)
• Conscious social identity can change while influences stay unconscious (similarity 0.84)
• Similarity of an outgroup raises bias only among highly identified ingroup members. (similarity 0.83)
• Threat amplifies preexisting intergroup responses rather than creating them (similarity 0.83)
• Intergroup threat and negative outgroup attitudes relate bidirectionally, not one-way. (similarity 0.83)
• Identification with one’s group is strongest when both ingroup and outgroup are made salient (similarity 0.83)
• Distinctiveness threat may precede and amplify symbolic and realistic threats (similarity 0.82)
• Group esteem threat research omits stereotype and identification measures (similarity 0.82)
• Recategorizing outgroup members as ingroup members diminishes perceived threat. (similarity 0.82)
• Perceived threat amplifies both in-group favoritism and out-group hostility (similarity 0.82)
• Groups are judged more threatening than the individuals composing them (similarity 0.82)