Brandon Randolph-Seng, Darcy A. Reich, and Kenneth G. DeMarree — On the Nonconscious Antecedents of Social Identification: Ingroup Salience, Outgroup Salience, or Both?

11 published claims from this book.

• Conscious social identity can change while influences stay unconscious
• Either ingroup or outgroup salience alone may suffice to increase social identification.
• Group-defense reactions can be triggered without any conscious perception of group threat
• Identification with one’s group is strongest when both ingroup and outgroup are made salient
• Ingroup and outgroup salience combine to maximize identification only when both are activated.
• Ingroup-outgroup pairing, not either alone, drives identity shifts
• Outgroup salience boosts conscious ingroup identification when the ingroup is already salient.
• People vary in how much they define themselves through others.
• Self-construal shifts in response to subtle I-versus-we primes.
• Subtle and even subliminal environmental primes shift people’s self-perceived traits.
• Unawareness of identification influences blocks correction for them.