The Role of Threats in the Racial Attitudes of Blacks and Whites

By Walter G. Stephan, Kurt A. Boniecki. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Threatened identities and interethnic interactions (2006, background): “Moreover, a significant factor contributing to ethnic minorities’ attitudes about Whites is their perceptions of Whites’ level of prejudice towards them (Stephan et al., 2002).”
Intergroup Anxiety (2014, background): “…theory (Berrenberg, Finlay, Stephan, & Stephan, 2002; Corenblum & Stephan, 2001; Renfro, Duran, Stephan, & Clason, 2006; C. W. Stephan, Demitrakis, Yamada, & Clason, 2000; W. G. Stephan et al., 2002; W. G. Stephan et al., 1999; W. G. Stephan, Ybarra, Martinez, Schwarzwald, & Tur-Kaspa, 1998).”
The effects of realistic threat and group identification on social dominance orientation (2008, background): “Importantly, both highand low-status group members can perceive one another as sources of realistic threat (Stephan et al., 2002).”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “Additionally, the consistent pairing of Latinos with stories about undocumented immigration (Rodgers & Thorson, 2000) and the negative connotations of immigration on the economy (cf. Kim, Carvalho, Davis, & Mullins, 2011) also marks this group as a threat, as undocumented immigration has become asso”
Relative Deprivation (2012, background): “Without clear evidence as to how people react to a specific comparison, we cannot be sure that they experienced RD (also see Stephan et al., 2002).”
Contact, Perspective Taking, and Anxiety as Predictors of Stereotype Endorsement, Explicit Attitudes, and Implicit Attitudes (2007, background): “Additionally, contact quality is associated with reduced anxiety in several of the studies cited above (e.g. Corenblum & Stephan, 2001; Hewstone, 2002; Paolini, et al., 2004; C. W. Stephan et al., 2000, Study 3, W. G. Stephan et al., 2000, 2002).”
Does a common ingroup identity reduce intergroup threat? (2010, background): “Evidence suggests that stereotypes can act in both fashions (Stephan et al., 2002).”
We must not be enemies: Interracial contact and the reduction of prejudice among authoritarians (2009, background): “In the contact literature, recent studies have shown repeatedly that intergroup anxiety mediates the relationships between intergroup contact and prejudice (Paolini, Hewstone, Cairns, & Voci, 2004; Stephan et al., 2002; Voci & Hewstone, 2003).”
Political Tolerance and Prejudice: Differential Reactions Toward Muslims in the Netherlands (2010, background): “Among White and African American college students, Stephan et al. (2002) found that in-group identification was positively related to racial attitudes and that this association was mediated by symbolic and realistic threats.”
Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials (2013, background): “Thomsen et al. (2008) demonstrated that perceptions that immigrants were trying to assimilate to the American mainstream, and thus “trespass” existing group boundaries, led Americans high in SDO to support immigrant persecution.”
A justification-suppression model of the expression and experience of prejudice. (2003, background): “Prejudice may develop from a rational evaluation of the danger presented by a group, even in the absence of direct intergroup conflict (e.g., Stangor & Crandall, 2000; Stephan et al., 2002).”
From prejudice to discrimination: The legitimizing role of perceived threat in discrimination against immigrants (2010, methodology): “This indicator operationalizes the core features of symbolic threat as a feeling that the simple presence of another group jeopardizes the ingroup’s values and traditions that define its cultural life (e.g. Sears & Henry, 2003; Stephan et al., 2002).”