Who may enter? The impact of in-group identification on in-group/out-group categorization

By Emanuele Castano, V. Yzerbyt, David Bourguignon, Eléonore Seron. 2002

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An experiment was conducted to examine the impact of identification with the in-group on the categorization of pictures depicting in-group and out-group faces. Findings showed that high identifiers classified fewer pictures as in-group members than did low identifiers. High and low identifiers also differed in their categorization latencies. Whereas high identifiers seemed more concerned with erroneously including an out-group member in the in-group, low identifiers seemed concerned with accuracy. The results are discussed with regard to the motivations underlying social categorization as well as to other phenomena that have been discovered through research on social identity theory.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Ambiguity and the Timecourse of Racial Perception (2006, result): “It is perhaps surprising that no evidence was found to support an ingroup overexclusion effect given past demonstrations with digitally morphed stimuli similar to those used here (Castano et al., 2002).”
To Provide or Protect: Motivational Bases of Political Liberalism and Conservatism (2009, background): “If conservatives are more sensitive to boundaries (ie, ingroup–outgroup membership), then they should be less inclusive when categorizing, allowing fewer potential members into the group and exhibiting an “ingroup overexclusion effect” (see Leyens & Yzerbyt, 1992 ; Castano, Yzerbyt, Bourguignon,”
Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups (2012, background): “Nearly half a century later, Castano et al. (2002) showed similar effects, demonstrating that northern Italians were generally likely to categorize ambiguous faces as southern rather than northern Italian.”
On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black (2013, methodology): “Received 29 October 2012 Revised 17 May 2013 Available online 29 May 2013”
On defeating death: Group reification and social identification as immortality strategies (2005, background): “Further analyses of our data revealed that the perception of entitativity mediated the impact of the mortality-salience manipulation on ingroup bias (Castano et al., 2002c).”
Event-related potentials and the decision to shoot: The role of threat perception and cognitive control (2006, background): “ing that racial prejudice and ingroup identity moderate racial categorization, e.g., Blascovich, Wyer, Swart, and Kibler (1997), Castano, Yzerbyt, and Bourguignon (2002) .”
Social-Psychological Interventions for Intergroup Reconciliation: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2016, background): “…situations of hostility and distrust it is plausible to suppose that group identification would be connected to ingroup favoritism and hence antithetical to a pro-outgroup orientation like intergroup reconciliation (Brown, 2000; Castano et al., 2002; Yzerbyt, Castano, Leyens, & Paladino, 2000).”
Natural ambiguities: Racial categorization of multiracial individuals (2012, background): “Another explanation for the tendency for White perceivers to categorize Black–White biracials more often as Black than asWhite is the in-group overexclusion effect (Castano et al., 2002).”