Distinct target threat types can be experimentally manipulated via news briefs

Evidence

After consenting, participants reported demographic data and were then assigned to read a control news brief about the extinction of giant tortoises or one of four treatment articles that manipulated (a) distinctiveness threat, (b) power threat, (c) morality threat, and (d) meritocratic threat (see SI. for complete wording). — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 35

Categorization

• SEED: Four distinct threat archetypes here map onto real-world discourse about a majority group’s status anxieties; an essay could juxtapose each manipulation against an actual news narrative.
• XREF: connects to: Multiple distinct threat types can be experimentally isolated and compared — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 14; Group-level threats and individual-level threats trigger systematically different responses — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 23; Pre-registered stratified experiments can isolate threat-type effects on identity — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 33 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Pre-registered stratified experiments can isolate threat-type effects on identity #expands (0.80) — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 33
• Different outgroup types provoke distinct kinds of threat #expands (0.80) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 9
• Group-level threats and individual-level threats trigger systematically different responses #expands (0.75) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 23
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type #expands (0.75) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 91