Countervailing information can blunt the downstream political influence of a catalyzed White identity.

Evidence

Finally, although identity threats can catalyze racial identity among White Democrats and Republicans, it is plausible this effect can be blunted by information that counteracts its subsequent influence. … This would provide more direct evidence about White identity’s causal effects, while isolating some conditions under which the effects of White identity weaken or dissipate. — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 89

Categorization

• QUESTION: Speculative but testable buffer design: threat followed by mitigating info, a causal-chain approach the reading purpose would value.
• XREF: connects to: Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity: Why…, 68; Exposing the racial subtext of coded messages switches White voters against them.; Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Shrinking numerical majority makes White identity salient and politically mobilizing #complicates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 68
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. #complicates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 53
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism #complicates (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 16
• Exposing the racial subtext of coded messages switches White voters against them. #corroborates (0.80)
• Exposing the racist subtext of coded appeals can make Whites repudiate them #corroborates (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2190
• Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. #complicates (0.75) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69