Cultural inertia, identity, and intergroup dynamics in a changing context

Zárate, Michael A.; Reyna, Christine; Álvarez, Míriam J.

doi:10.1016/bs.aesp.2018.11.001

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“…Additionally, we show that attitudes about the outgroup assimilation are dynamic and malleable, allowing us for the first time to experimentally "turn on and off" the activation of prototypicality threat in the face of growing outgroup size. This research also complements and extends insights offered by scholarship on cultural inertia (e.g., Zárate, Reyna, & Alvarez, 2019;Zárate, Shaw, Marquez, & Biagas Jr., 2012).…”

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Welcome to Be Like Us: Expectations of Outgroup Assimilation Shape Dominant Group Resistance to Diversity

Danbold

Huo

2021

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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We propose a theoretical framework for when and why members of dominant groups experience threat and express intolerant attitudes in response to social change. Scholarship on symbolic threat suggests that the detection of intergroup differences in values and norms is sufficient to elicit negative intergroup attitudes. Building on this theory, we argue that the experience of threat is actually shaped by prospective beliefs about difference (i.e., expectations of whether outgroups will assimilate to ingroup norms over time or not). Across two studies and two accompanying pilots, we show how outgroup assimilation expectation shapes dominant groups’ experiences of threat, specifically as it relates to their ability to define the norms of their superordinate category (prototypicality threat). We observe that members of dominant groups are surprisingly tolerant of both social change and intergroup difference in the present, so long as they expect outgroup assimilation in the future.

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“…This research also complements and extends insights offered by scholarship on cultural inertia (e.g., Zárate et al, 2012Zárate et al, , 2019. Cultural inertia theory makes similar predictions about dominant groups' preferences for assimilation, in that it spares dominant groups the discomforts of change.…”

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Welcome to Be Like Us: Expectations of Outgroup Assimilation Shape Dominant Group Resistance to Diversity

Danbold

Huo

2021

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…People justify the status quo, preferring stability especially if they are privileged, but even if not (Jost & Banaji, 1994 ). Groups in a secure position show the cultural equivalent of inertia, seeking stability, but groups on the move express inertia as continuing to move (e.g., acquiring mainstream standing) (Zárate et al, 2019 ).…”

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Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society

Banaji

Massey

2021

Cogn. Research

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Systemic racism is a scientifically tractable phenomenon, urgent for cognitive scientists to address. This tutorial reviews the built-in systems that undermine life opportunities and outcomes by racial category, with a focus on challenges to Black Americans. From American colonial history, explicit practices and policies reinforced disadvantage across all domains of life, beginning with slavery, and continuing with vastly subordinated status. Racially segregated housing creates racial isolation, with disproportionate costs to Black Americans’ opportunities, networks, education, wealth, health, and legal treatment. These institutional and societal systems build-in individual bias and racialized interactions, resulting in systemic racism. Unconscious inferences, empirically established from perceptions onward, demonstrate non-Black Americans’ inbuilt associations: pairing Black Americans with negative valences, criminal stereotypes, and low status, including animal rather than human. Implicit racial biases (improving only slightly over time) imbed within non-Black individuals’ systems of racialized beliefs, judgments, and affect that predict racialized behavior. Interracial interactions likewise convey disrespect and distrust. These systematic individual and interpersonal patterns continue partly due to non-Black people’s inexperience with Black Americans and reliance on societal caricatures. Despite systemic challenges, Black Americans are more diverse now than ever, due to resilience (many succeeding against the odds), immigration (producing varied backgrounds), and intermarriage (increasing the multiracial proportion of the population). Intergroup contact can foreground Black diversity, resisting systemic racism, but White advantages persist in all economic, political, and social domains. Cognitive science has an opportunity: to include in its study of the mind the distortions of reality about individual humans and their social groups.

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“…Driven in part by the prominence of social identity theory (SIT; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and the minimal groups paradigm, the contemporary intergroup literature has emphasized the role of category-membership (e.g., Black vs. White people; Rattlers vs. Eagles) over coalitional structure (i.e., friends vs. foes). This approach is limited, however, because social categories aren't fixed entities (Zárate, Reyna, & Alvarez, 2019). For one, the associations with specific categories change over time (e.g., when Italian and Irish immigrants became 'White' in American in the early 20 th century) or categories may fracture forming new categories (Moya & Scezla, 2015).…”

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Causes and consequences of coalitional cognition

Cikara

2021

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

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Cultural inertia, identity, and intergroup dynamics in a changing context

Cited by 23 publications

References 181 publications

Welcome to Be Like Us: Expectations of Outgroup Assimilation Shape Dominant Group Resistance to Diversity

Welcome to Be Like Us: Expectations of Outgroup Assimilation Shape Dominant Group Resistance to Diversity

Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society

Causes and consequences of coalitional cognition

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