Threats to individuation drive subgroup fission rather than total individuation

Evidence

According to ODT, feelings of deindividuation should motivate people to adopt more exclusive group identities as opposed to seeking total individuation. Thus, the need for distinctiveness can be satisfied in two complementary and sometimes sequential ways: (1) making intragroup distinctions, that is, dividing an overly inclusive group into more distinctive subgroups with which to identify, and (2) making intergroup comparisons between one’s subgroup and 138 • Cynthia L. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 847

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s thread on how groups generate internal subdivisions under identity threat — echoes of subgroup dynamics in the Allport work and the mechanism of minute ingroup distinctions as a prejudice substrate.
• QUESTION: The paragraph is truncated at the end of the passage — the second mechanism (intergroup comparisons) trails off. Worth chasing how subgroup fission differs causally from pure outgroup derogation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 847