Distinct threat types can push White identity toward rather than against outgroups.

Evidence

We also stipulate that morality and meritocratic threat will encourage Whites to look inward to repair a corrupted aspect of their ingroup. Leach et al. (2015) suggest morality threat prompts ingroup members to repair their category’s public-facing image, including newfound flexibility in their stance toward outgroups. Thus, we hypothesize that (H7) morality and meritocratic threat will catalyze White identity and boost support for pro-outgroup policies and decrease support for pro-ingroup policies. — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 30

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the default assumption that threat-energized dominant-group identity always turns anti-outgroup; parallels recalcitrance literature on how group-based moral shame can open rather than close. Relevant to the white-identity-as-latent question framing. — connects to: Morality threat dilutes White identity strength and reduces outgroup hostility, unlike power threat. — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 12; Identity threats vary in whether they trigger political mobilization or outgroup hostility. — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 12; Different outgroup types provoke distinct kinds of threat — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 9 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: How does the morality-threat condition operationalize ‘repair’ versus simple outgroup blame in practice?

Broader Connections

• White identity threats split between ingroup-centered decline and outgroup-centered power #expands (0.90) — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 7
• Different outgroup types provoke distinct kinds of threat #expands (0.85) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 9
• White racial identity strengthens through contrast with minority out-groups #complicates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1119