Category membership moderates the inhibition of social identities

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Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction (2009, background): “Hugenberg and Bodenhausen (2004) studied college students who held memberships in fraternities and sororities, and thus had a ‘‘Greek system’’ identity as well as a more superordinate ‘‘university student’’ identity.”
Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions (2008, background): “A particularly intriguing tactic may be termed identicide, where one suppresses and even kills an identity that is seen to impede other valued identities (cf. identity deletion, Pratt & Foreman, 2000; identity inhibition, Hugenberg & Bodenhausen, 2004).”
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012, background): “That is, because the state of fusion is so all consuming, it may compromise people’s capacity to compartmentalize their group-related experiences (Hugenberg & Bodenhausen, 2004).”