Family status anxiety in parents predicts offspring prejudice

Evidence

What is it that causes the prejudiced person to be so much concerned with status and success? The answer seems to be in the interview categories: “Family status-concerned” vs. “Family status-relaxed.” Prejudiced subjects made the following observations “Well, they [parents] didn’t want me to run with some kind of people—slummy women— always wanted me to associate with the higher class of people.” “We lived in a nice house but really couldn’t afford it. It was quite an effort to get into social circles.” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 557