Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism.

Evidence

As predicted, self-reported political ideology differed by condition, F(2, 160) = 4.44, p = .013, ηp 2 = . (see Table 3); participants in the status-threat condition identified more with conservatism compared with participants in the control condition, F(1, 160) = 4.26, p = .041, ηp 2 = .03, and participants in the assuaged-threat condition, F(1, 160) = 8.33, p = .004, ηp 2 = . — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69

Categorization

• XREF: The most direct evidence for the reader’s mechanism question: shift-perception converts latent threatened privilege into expressed conservative IDENTITY, not just policy preferences. — connects to: Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 12; Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 22; Status-threat alleviation should cancel the shift-conservatism effect, isolating threat as the mediator. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 46 (+11 more)

Related

• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.92)
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.92)
• Status-threat alleviation should cancel the shift-conservatism effect, isolating threat as the mediator. (similarity 0.91)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.89)
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type (similarity 0.87)
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat (similarity 0.86)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.84)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.83)
• Anticipated status loss decades away still shifts politics right (similarity 0.83)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.83)
• A larger fear-processing amygdala may make conservatives more susceptible to threats (similarity 0.83)
• Threat shifts supposedly stable ideological dispositions like authoritarianism (similarity 0.82)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.81)
• Authoritarianism operates independent of status-threat condition (similarity 0.81)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism #exemplifies (0.88) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 40
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities #expands (0.82) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 94
• Authoritarianism shifts with situational threat and status cues #expands (0.80)
• Threat produces similar authoritarian effects at individual and group levels #expands (0.78)
• Threat shifts supposedly stable ideological dispositions like authoritarianism #corroborates (0.75) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 25
• Threatened privilege, not disadvantage, can also trigger politicized collective identity #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4441