TY - JOUR
T1 - White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and right-wing extremism
AU - Bai, Hui
AU - Federico, Christopher M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - We present four studies (one correlational and three experimental) of American Whites that examine relationships between White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and support for extreme-right groups and actions. We focus in particular on the role of collective existential threat (i.e., a perception that the ingroup will cease to exist), along with three alternative/competing intergroup threats: status threat, symbolic threat, and prototypicality threat. Though no zero-order relationship was found between perceived White population decline and far-right variables, we find evidence that (1) perceived White population decline leads to collective existential threat net of other perceived demographic shifts, (2) collective existential threat is related to far-right support net of other threats, and (3) perceived White decline has a robust indirect relationship with measures of far-right support via collective existential threat.
AB - We present four studies (one correlational and three experimental) of American Whites that examine relationships between White and minority demographic shifts, intergroup threat, and support for extreme-right groups and actions. We focus in particular on the role of collective existential threat (i.e., a perception that the ingroup will cease to exist), along with three alternative/competing intergroup threats: status threat, symbolic threat, and prototypicality threat. Though no zero-order relationship was found between perceived White population decline and far-right variables, we find evidence that (1) perceived White population decline leads to collective existential threat net of other perceived demographic shifts, (2) collective existential threat is related to far-right support net of other threats, and (3) perceived White decline has a robust indirect relationship with measures of far-right support via collective existential threat.
KW - Demographic shift
KW - Far-right extremism
KW - Population
KW - Threats
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104114
DO - 10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104114
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101286213
SN - 0022-1031
VL - 94
JO - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
M1 - 104114
ER -