The Role of Threat in Intergroup Relations

By Walter G. Stephan, C. Renfro, Mark D. Davis. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy

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Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict. (2014, unknown): “…thought to be individually oriented because it is the individual who experiences anxiety during intergroup interactions, while realistic and symbolic threats are believed to be group oriented because it is the group that may lose power or have to change its belief system (Stephan & Renfro, 2003).”
Population Ratios and Prejudice: Modelling Both Contact and Threat Effects (2010, background): “At the individual level of analysis, Stephan and Renfro (2002) make an important distinction between individual and collective threat.”
Integrated Threat Theory and Acceptance of Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis of Muslim Immigration in Western Europe (2013, background): “Stephan and Renfro (2002) asserted that a distinction should be made between individual and group-level processes and whether threats are made toward individuals or groups.”
Contact, Anxiety, and Young People's Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Towards the Elderly (2010, unknown): “These include self-disclosure (Turner, Hewstone, & Voci, 2007); empathy and perspective taking (Tam, Hewstone, Harwood, Voci, & Kenworthy, 2006); and knowledge of the outgroup (Stephan & Renfro, 2002).”
Prejudice Toward Asian Americans in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Social Media Use in the United States (2020, background): “Moreover, more and more ITT researchers have reduced the original four ITT threats (realistic threat, symbolic threat, intergroup anxiety and negative stereotypes) to only realistic and symbolic threats (Stephan and Renfro, 2002; Stephan et al., 2009; Nshom and Croucher, 2017, 2018).”
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Prejudice: An Analysis of Mediation and Moderation (2009, methodology): “Stephan and Renfro (2002), for example, suggest that (a) authoritarianism is an antecedent of various perceived threats and (b) these perceived threats in turn are direct predictors of prejudice.”
Cross-Community Contact, Perceived Status Differences, and Intergroup Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Roles of Individual-level versus Group-level Threats and the Moderating Role of Social Identification (2007, background): “! In a recent reformulation of this model, Stephan and Renfro (2003) suggested that the differ”
Morality and intergroup relations: Threats to safety and group image predict the desire to interact with outgroup and ingroup members☆ (2013, background): “Similarly, there is empirical evidence (Cottrell & Neuberg, 2005; Stephan et al., 2009; see also Stephan & Renfro, 2002; Stephan & Stephan, 2000) showing that the experience of threat raises hostility against the group that is seen as the source of threat.”
Why do right-wing adherents engage in more animal exploitation and meat consumption? (2014, background): “…literature on the role of individual differences in intergroup relations, combining theorizing on intergroup threat (Stephan & Stephan, 2000; Stephan & Renfro, 2002) and group dominance (Pratto et al., 1994; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) into a single model in order to explain biased attitudes…”
Direct contact and authoritarianism as moderators between extended contact and reduced prejudice (2011, background): “Stephan and Renfro (2002) distinguished threats to the ingroup’s welfare, referred to as realistic threat, from threats to the ingroup’s value system, referred to as symbolic threat.”