White supremacist group identity is organized around out-group negativity, unlike typical intergroup bias

Evidence

The correlational analyses revealed no evidence of a reciprocal relationship between in-group positivity and out-group negativity. However, racial slurs were positively correlated with threat and outgroup negativity toward minorities, indicating that racially derogatory terms were more likely to be used when issues surrounding threat and negativity toward minorities were being discussed. Thus, the data from this study suggest that group identity for Stormfront members is organized around out-group negativity, particularly toward minorities, and the threat posed by these groups for the in-group. The focus on outgroup negativity observed in this study is in stark contrast to findings that intergroup bias is typically a function of in-group positivity rather than out-group negativity (e.g., Brewer, 1979, 1999, 2001). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1034

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the classic Brewer minimal-group finding that intergroup bias flows from ingroup positivity — connects to the reader’s Allport thread on structure of prejudice.
• QUESTION: Does white-supremacist outlier status mean the ingroup-positivity baseline only holds for benign groups, or does threat reframe the mechanism?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1034