An Examination Of Ingroup Preferences Among People With Multiple Socially Stigmatized Identities

The current study uses large datasets from the Project Implicit website to better understand the role of belonging to multiple stigmatized groups on ingroup attitudes. Participants from stigmatized groups completed explicit and implicit measures of attitudes in three domains - race, sexuality, and disability. Our investigation focused on whether occupying multiple stigmatized identities (compared to a single stigmatized identity) is associated with the magnitude of ingroup preferences on a single dimension. The results showed that: (1) there is considerable variation in the strength of ingroup favoritism across members of stigmatized groups, (2) Black people (particularly Black men) showed the weakest levels of ingroup preference, and (3) White women in particular showed the greatest degree of ingroup preferences.