Chen-Bo Zhong, Adam D. Galinsky, and Miguel M. Unzueta — Negational racial identity and presidential voting preferences
17 published claims from this book.
- Attitudes toward other minority groups were measured with averaged 100-point thermometer ratings
- Highlighting a shared non-White negational identity increased minority support for a Black presidential candidate.
- Identity can be formed negationally by focusing on group non-membership.
- Intergroup warmth is a hypothesized mechanism for the negational identity effect
- LGBT MBA students illustrate nested identity with school as superordinate and club as subgroup
- Minority groups each claim unique oppression, blocking cross-group alliances
- Multiple marginalized groups demand civil rights beyond religious identity politics
- Negational identification can unite people who cannot agree on positive identity
- Negational identification unites out-groups through shared non-membership rather than shared membership.
- Negational identity appeals carry a cost of intensified out-group derogation.
- Negational identity can build coalitions across minority groups by de-emphasizing in-group.
- Negational identity is manipulated by writing about not being a Caucasian
- Racial minorities support minority candidates more when negational racial identity is salient
- Reminding people of what they are not can drive coalition building among minority groups.
- Superordinate identities reduce in-group bias in the lab but fail at societal scale.
- The negational-identity experiment sampled Latino college students split into affirmational and negational conditions
- US minority groups distrust each other more than they do Whites