Perceived symbolic and tangible threats drive prejudice toward stigmatized groups

Evidence

Tangible or symbolic threats create prejudice against people who are different (see Crandall & Stangor, ch. 18 this volume). These include (a) resource conflict (with outgroups or with ingroup traitors), (b) dangers to physical health (from someone who is contagious), (c) symbolic threat to bodily integrity or mortality (from someone physically deformed or dying), (d) violations of a just world (from apparent innocents who suffer), and (e) moral undermining (from deviants). Tangible or symbolic threat stigmatizes people with leprosy, facial damage, terminal illness, accidental disability, and homosexual orientation (see also Blascovich et al., 2001). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 337

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes resource, health, mortality, just-world, and moral threats as distinct prejudice drivers.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 337
• XREF: connects to: Stereotypes and identification precede threats, whose attitude effects run through emotions. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 149; Positive stereotypes may also induce perceived threat — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 153