How To Cope With Status Threat: Experiments to Increase Majority Tolerance for Diversification

• In Event: Status Threat and Group Dominance

Brief Overview

Majority members (e.g., whites, men) increasingly show backlash against diversification and liberalization, often because they experience status threat. This paper tests two theories to reduce status threat and resulting political backlash.

Authors

• Luca Versteegen, University of Gothenburg

• Stylianos Syropoulos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst