Low-warmth, low-competence groups draw moralized disgust for illegitimately consuming resources.

Evidence

The third combination, low-status, free-loading groups that are perceived as neither competent nor warm, receive what we have termed contemptuous prejudice, encompassing anger, contempt, disgust, hate, and resentment. Anger is directed toward those with negative outcomes that they could have avoided; blame results from perceiving individually controllable causes (Weiner, 1985; Weiner et al., 1982; Weiner et al., 1988; Zucker & Weiner, 1993). Again, however, more specific reactions than anger are relevant; contempt, disgust, and resentment involve moral overtones of injustice, indignation, and bitterness toward illegitimate behavior. In this case, groups that are perceived to have interests that detract from others create competition in a zero-sum sense. Groups that use up societal resources compete with other societal priorities, though they are not viewed as successful per se. Contempt and disgust are directed downward in contrastive comparisons (R. H. Smith, 2000; also see E. R. Smith, 1993). If we translate to the group level, the low-status, incompetent groups that are perceived not to be warm may be perceived to have hostile, exploitative intent that impacts others in society, also provoking resentment and hatred. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 259

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘exploitative intent’ reading of outgroups hooks into the reader’s existing power-minority scapegoating interest; contrastive downward contempt parallels how comfortable majorities pathologize perceived freeloaders. — connects to: Paternalized low-competence groups cluster high on warmth. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 190; Disgust blocks the solidarity that egalitarian societies otherwise owe the excluded — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice: Society,…, 746; Envied out-groups draw low-warmth stereotypes that rationalize their exclusion — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 32 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Envied out-groups draw low-warmth stereotypes that rationalize their exclusion #corroborates (0.85) — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 32
• Groups develop negative stereotypes of others to justify their competition for resources #expands (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2891
• Paternalistic prejudice combines assumed superiority with caretaking toward warm but incompetent groups. #qualifies (0.80) — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 257
• High-competence groups are judged significantly lower in warmth, yielding mixed stereotypes. #qualifies (0.78) — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 120
• Disgust blocks the solidarity that egalitarian societies otherwise owe the excluded #expands (0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 746
• Groups seen as competing with the ingroup are stereotyped as low in warmth #qualifies (0.74) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1491
• Paternalized low-competence groups cluster high on warmth. #complicates (0.72) — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 190
• Members of advantaged groups feel moral conflict when their superiority seems illegitimate. #complicates (0.71) — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations, 52