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Abstract
In this chapter, we address the idea that being restrictive and excluding others from the ingroup may serve an important function for group members. Ingroup exclusion may be one way by which individuals are able to enhance their own feelings of ingroup inclusion. A second goal of this chapter is to explore some of the consequences of this greater exclusiveness for perceptions of the ingroup and the outgroup. We argue that due to their different concerns, peripheral group members and core members may hold very different perceptions of the ingroup and outgroup. In addition, a person’s relative standing within the group may affect their perceptions of the intergroup context itself–that is, the extent to which they notice and defend against the proximity of a relevant outgroup. We conclude the chapter by considering some of the implications of this work for intergroup relations in pluralistic societies.