Ethnophaulisms predict the social exclusion of immigrant groups

Evidence

The evidence to date indicates that ethnophaulism complexity tends to be a stronger predictor of the negative consequences of ethnophaulisms than ethnophaulism valence. In both Mullen and Rice (2003) and Mullen (2004), across 150 years of archival data, ethnophaulism complexity was a better predictor of the exclusion of ethnic immigrant outgroups than ethnophaulism valence. This pattern of results was recently replicated in the controlled experimental examination of the use of ethnophaulisms. Mullen, Leader, and Rice (2004) had participants use ethnophaulisms for an ethnic immigrant outgroup. Increasing the negativity of the ethnophaulisms had no apparent effect, but decreasing the complexity of the ethnophaulisms led to greater subsequent exclusion of the group. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1286

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is counterintuitive — why would complexity (a seemingly structural property) outweigh valence (an overtly evaluative property)? Worth chasing what mechanism Mullen proposes.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1286
• XREF: connects to: Ethnonationalism frames politics as ingroup versus outgroup needing exclusion. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 11