Status-threat alleviation should cancel the shift-conservatism effect, isolating threat as the mediator.

Evidence

Thus, in Study 3, we tested the mediating role of group-status threat directly. Participants read an article about the U.S. racial shift (as in Study 2), a control article, or a third article designed to allay concerns about group status. Specifically, this third article contained the same information as the article about the U.S. racial shift, but also indicated that status relations among racial groups are likely to remain unchanged. Further, to assess participants’ ideological shift more precisely, we measured political ideology before and after the manipulation. We predicted that participants for whom the racial shift was made salient, without any alleviation of group-status concerns, would endorse conservative policies more and express a greater conservative shift in their ideology than participants who read the same article but whose concerns about Whites’ future status were allayed or participants who did not read about the racial shift at all. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 46

Categorization

• XREF: The allay-condition design mirrors the threat-alleluation logic from the threatened-privilege lit; connects to the reader’s across-identity-axis replication program. — connects to: Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 22; Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 86; Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69 (+4 more)

Related

• Group-status threat is the proposed causal mediator of shift-induced conservatism. (similarity 0.92)
• Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. (similarity 0.91)
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. (similarity 0.90)
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. (similarity 0.90)
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type (similarity 0.87)
• Liberal and conservative participants responded similarly to demographic threat (similarity 0.84)
• Perceived racial demographic shifts cause a conservative shift in White Americans through group-status threat. (similarity 0.84)
• Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism (similarity 0.84)
• Racial status threat may drive conservative shifts even among minorities (similarity 0.84)
• Reassuring whites that status will persist can blunt the threat of demographic shift. (similarity 0.83)
• Reminding White Americans of shifting racial demographics raises their group status threat. (similarity 0.83)
• Groups are perceived as more threatening than individuals, so dissolving category boundaries lowers threat. (similarity 0.83)
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism (similarity 0.83)
• Demographic threat generalizes conservative shift to race-neutral policy (similarity 0.82)
• Threat dynamics among status-equal groups remain unexamined. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• 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
• Removing anticipatory status threat eliminates the conservative reaction to demographic shift. #expands (0.92) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 86
• Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. #corroborates (0.90) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69
• Perceived threat to in-group status evokes greater political conservatism. #corroborates (0.85) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 12
• Authoritarianism operates independent of status-threat condition #complicates (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 73
• Threats can produce targeted or generalized conservative shifts depending on type #qualifies (0.78) — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 91
• Perceived threat, not actual threat, drives exclusionary attitudes #qualifies (0.72) — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 5