Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat.

Evidence

We observed a significant main effect of condition predicting only group status threat (β = .15, p = .001), such that White Americans exposed to the racial shift condition (M = 4.15, SD = 1.19) reported greater group status threat than those in the control condition (M = 3.81, SD = 0.99). — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 36

Categorization

• QUESTION: Implication: the message shifts the privileged group’s own sense of threat, worth comparing to group-based trajectories of threat in the reader’s paper.
• SHARE: Could share with someone working on zero-sum beliefs: one crisp experimental inducer of anticipatory status threat.
• XREF: connects to: Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 1; Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 8; Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 49 (+13 more)

Related

• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.93)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.92)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.90)
• Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift. (similarity 0.90)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.90)
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. (similarity 0.89)
• Perceived racial demographic shift may push White Americans toward conservatism. (similarity 0.88)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.88)
• Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. (similarity 0.88)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.87)
• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. (similarity 0.86)
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.85)
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.85)
• Status threat from diversity shifts whites rightward regardless of party affiliation. (similarity 0.85)
• Demographic shift reminders backfire among low-identification Whites, shrinking Trump support. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Racial-shift reminders shift highly identified Whites toward Trump and against Sanders via status threat. #corroborates (1.00) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 53
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism #expands (0.95) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 40
• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. #expands (0.95) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 22
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. #corroborates (0.90) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 12
• Racial demographic shift threatens Whites only when they identify strongly with their ethnic group. #qualifies (0.85) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 58