Social upheaval and felt vulnerability intensify prejudicial beliefs about outsiders.

Evidence

Prejudicial beliefs about outsiders are likely to be especially pronounced under circumstances that produce fear and feelings of vulnerability. In the Holocaust context, the social, economic, and political upheavals during the 1920s and 1930s may have provided such cues. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 497

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Possible follow-up material for ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — the threat-cue precondition for a stratified society deciding whom to kill.
• XREF: connects to: Insecurity about one’s status triggers reflexive disparagement of others. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 115; Threatened self-esteem plus uncertainty drives people into rigid group identity. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 913; Specific social, physical, and psychological cues activate prejudicial beliefs about out-groups. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 496 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived threat, not actual threat, drives exclusionary attitudes #corroborates (0.90) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 5
• Insecurity about one’s status triggers reflexive disparagement of others. #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 115
• Threatened self-esteem plus uncertainty drives people into rigid group identity. #expands (0.85) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 913
• Specific social, physical, and psychological cues activate prejudicial beliefs about out-groups. #expands (0.80) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 496
• External danger and social isolation drive members toward group conformity. #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4142
• Fear-driven insecurity fuels self-enhancement that exacerbates prejudice. #expands (0.75)
• Perceived downward status shift relative to a minority breeds intense relative deprivation and resentment. #expands (0.75) — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 803