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We are delighted to have the opportunity to respond to Y. Jenny Xiao, Géraldine Coppin, and Jay J. Van Bavel’s (this issue) perceptual model of intergroup relations. We see this model as filling an important void in the literature between the resurgent interest in motivated perception and the long-standing interest in social psychology in intergroup relations. Xiao and colleagues propose that social groups, identities, and contexts can alter perception across multiple modalities; in turn, these perceptions influence intergroup attitudes, judgments, and behaviors. Although noting that there is relatively little empirical support for the reverse causal pathway, they also postulate that the model may be bidirectional, suggesting that intergroup relations may influence perceptual processes, which may in turn affect social identity. Thus, the crux of the proposed model is that “social identification influences perception”(p. 257). The …