Perceived resource scarcity combined with a competitive outgroup triggers instrumental prejudice.

Evidence

The Instrumental Model of Group Conflict (Esses, Jackson, & Armstrong, 1998) proposes that resource stress – the perception that there are not enough resources to go around – and the presence of a potentially competitive outgroup, lead to perceived competition. A variety of resources may be seen to be at stake, including more tangible resources, such as jobs and power, and more symbolic resources, such as values. In either case, perceptions of group competition are proposed to lead to prejudice and discrimination that are instrumental in their attempt to eliminate group competition (e.g., restrictive immigration policies to prevent job competition from immigrants). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1489

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to realistic group conflict theory (Sherif) and downstream to perceived-zero-sum thinking in modern politics. — connects to: Stigler saw markets as producing wrong knowledge because they satisfy popular prejudice — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 120; Attacks on footballer wages vent class resentment at a market effect. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1551; Perceived competence in envied outgroups fuels resentment-driven prejudice rather than reducing it. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 302 (+4 more)