Male intrasexual competition drives both perpetration and targeting of ethnic prejudice

Evidence

SDT argues that men are expected to be the primary agents of arbitrary-set discrimination. Additionally, because intrasexual competition is expected to be greater among men than among women, men are also more likely to be the primary targets of arbitrary-set discrimination. From this line of reasoning, the authors have put forth a so-called subordinate male target hypothesis (SMTH; see Sidanius & Pratto, 1999), which simply states that it is men, not women, who will serve as both the primary targets and agents of prejudice and discrimination against racial minorities (Sidanius & Veniegas, 2000). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1173

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism-level claim that ties ethnic bigotry to male intrasexual competition — a causal account useful to the reader’s ingroup/outgroup mechanism thread.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1173