Threat-driven cognitive biases facilitate and justify intergroup violence

Evidence

One common consequence shared by all of these cognitive biases is that they make violence against the outgroup more likely and easier to justify. — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 380

Attitudes toward the ingroup may become more favorable, and ingroup cohesiveness – for example, as indicated by perceptions of similarity among ingroup members (Karasawa, Karasawa, & Hirose, 2004; Rothgerber, 1997; Wilder, 1984) – would be expected to increase in the face of threat. ). One common consequence shared by all of these cognitive biases is that they make violence against the outgroup more likely and easier to justify. — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 18

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 380; Walter G. Stephan, Oscar Ybarra, Kimberly Rios Morrison, Intergroup Threat Theory, 18
• XREF: connects to: Perceived racial threat drives zero-sum fears that justify defensive aggression — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 151; Cultural violence arises from superiority beliefs fused with underlying group vulnerability — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 96; Control motivation but not implicit death cognition drives threat-based ingroup defense. — Dmitrij Agroskin and Eva Jonas, Controlling death by defending…, 143 (+3 more)

Related

• Group-defense reactions can be triggered without any conscious perception of group threat (similarity 0.88)
• Perceived threat amplifies both in-group favoritism and out-group hostility (similarity 0.86)
• Control motivation but not implicit death cognition drives threat-based ingroup defense. (similarity 0.86)
• Threat amplifies attribution biases that exonerate ingroups and damn outgroups (similarity 0.85)
• Threat amplifies the ultimate attribution error in intergroup perception. (similarity 0.84)
• Perceived racial threat drives zero-sum fears that justify defensive aggression (similarity 0.84)
• Threat amplifies preexisting intergroup responses rather than creating them (similarity 0.83)
• Perceived outgroup threats damage intergroup relations even without hostility (similarity 0.83)
• Threat biases memory, stereotype disconfirmation, and perceived outgroup size. (similarity 0.83)
• Intergroup threat and negative outgroup attitudes relate bidirectionally, not one-way. (similarity 0.82)
• Group anger drives confrontation while fear drives avoidance (similarity 0.82)
• Different outgroup types provoke distinct kinds of threat (similarity 0.82)
• Intergroup threats may not be necessary for ingroup love to drive outgroup hate (similarity 0.82)
• Common external threats can reduce prejudice among ordinary outgroups (similarity 0.82)
• Intergroup threat is not required to link in-group positivity with out-group hostility. (similarity 0.82)