Usurpation of one’s own resources is more aversive than lacking resources initially

Evidence

For realistic threat, this effect may be due to high status group members’ perception that low status outgroups are trying to usurp their resources. This may be more aversive than not having resources in the first place, which could explain why the realistic threats posed by low status outgroups have a larger impact on attitudes than the threats from high status outgroups. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup Attitudes, 129

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the reader’s MOC thread: a dominating group’s boundary-reactive anxiety may be sharpest when a lower-status outgroup moves to blur the boundary and claim its perquisites — loss-aversion applied to hierarchy. — connects to: Group threats divide into resource-based and integrity-based categories — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 67

Related

• Group threats divide into resource-based and integrity-based categories (similarity 0.83)
• Uncertain, unfamiliar, low-power settings maximize perceived outgroup threat. (similarity 0.79)