Prejudiced people evaluate relationships by status potential rather than intimacy

Evidence

The prejudiced subject is exceptionally concerned with status and success and rather little concerned with solidarity and intimacy. He puts friendship, love, and marriage in the service of status-seeking. Anyone with whom he might become intimate or even acquainted is evaluated in terms of status points. The prejudiced man always asks: “What can he do for me?” — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to social dominance theory and how status-seeking predicts outgroup hostility in the same volume.