Lynching rates in the US historically correlated with economic frustration levels

Evidence

Microstudies in the Dollard et al. volume systematically manipulated the frustration levels of individual rats and then measured these rats’ aggressiveness toward available targets not associated with their frustration; the volume’s macrostudies (Hovland & Sears, 1939) correlated annual fluctuations in U.S. economic frustration (measured by gross national product or price of cotton) with annual scapegoating scores (measured by yearly numbers of lynchings in the United States). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 349 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Over 4,400 verified lynchings of African Americans occurred between 1877 and 1950 — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 568; Economic downturns historically correlated with increases in lynchings of Black Americans — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 349; Individual frustrations explain spontaneous prejudice while collective processes explain organized persecution — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1611

Broader Connections

• Economic downturns historically correlated with increases in lynchings of Black Americans #corroborates (0.95) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 349