Chronic perceived threat can reverse normal in-group bias dynamics in hate groups

Evidence

If these threats are experienced chronically, it is possible that out-group negativity may be more common than in-group positivity among white supremacist organizations. Under conditions of chronic perceived threat, in-group positivity might also become coupled with out-group negativity, with increases in one associated with increases in the other. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 987

Categorization

• QUESTION: Predicts hate-group memberships may invert the normal in-group-positivity pattern — does the data support this hypothesis?
• XREF: Complicates the prior claim that in-group bias runs on positivity by specifying a condition (chronic threat) under which hostility may dominate. — connects to: Four threat types explain 36 percent of variance in outgroup attitudes — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 105; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: Ours, True, and the Identity That Defends Both”
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 987