Perceived threat amplifies both in-group favoritism and out-group hostility

Evidence

Both in-group positivity and out-group negativity were more likely to occur when threat was present than when it was absent. This finding is consistent with evidence that threat exacerbates intergroup bias (e.g., Esses et al., 1998; Sherif et al., 1961). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1103

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the threat-driven ingroup/outgroup mechanism central to the Allport/Islamophobia thread; also echoes Sherif’s Robbers Cave empirical grounding. — connects to: Control motivation but not implicit death cognition drives threat-based ingroup defense. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 143; Perceived outgroup threats damage intergroup relations even without hostility — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 38; Threat effects on attitudes are stronger for low-status than high-status outgroups — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 129 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1103