Multiple distinct threat types can be experimentally isolated and compared

Evidence

We address these questions with a large, stratified, preregistered experiment on White Democrats and Republicans (N = 4,000). We assigned White partisans to a control group or one of four treatments: (a) distinctiveness threat (loss of unique ingroup attributes), (b) power threat (an ingroup perceiving outgroup collusion), (c) morality threat (impugning an ingroup’s integrity), and (d) meritocratic threat (questioning an ingroup’s advantages). — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 14

Categorization

• XREF: Four-way threat typology directly matches the reader’s interest in testing under what conditions an inert identity becomes politically weighty. — connects to: Distinct target threat types can be experimentally manipulated via news briefs — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 35; Pre-registered stratified experiments can isolate threat-type effects on identity — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 33

Broader Connections

• Distinct target threat types can be experimentally manipulated via news briefs #exemplifies (0.95) — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 35
• Pre-registered stratified experiments can isolate threat-type effects on identity #exemplifies (0.90) — Efrén Pérez, Jessica HyunJeong Lee, Ana Oaxaca, Tania Solano Cervantes, Jasmine García Rodríguez, Kimberly Lam, and David McFall, Manifold Threats to White Identity and…, 33