Devalued groups differ sharply in self-esteem across group lines.

Evidence

Qualitative (Crocker & Major, 1989) and meta-analytic (Twenge & Crocker, 2000) reviews of the literature conclude that some devalued groups, such as African Americans, have higher self-esteem than nonstigmatized groups. Other groups that are targets of prejudice (e.g., White women, overweight people), however, have lower self-esteem than the nonstigmatized (see Major, Quinton, & McCoy, 2002). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 935

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the self-protective stigma hypotheses thread from Crocker-Major that the vault treats as core; African American higher self-esteem is the keystone empirical finding.
• QUESTION: The chapter flags this group difference as unexplained — worth pulling the Twenge & Crocker (2000) meta-analysis to chase the mechanism.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 935