Status Threat, Partisanship, and Group Identification

• In Event: Political Psychology of Status Threat

Brief Overview

Using a novel survey of Americans, we test whether status threat increases conservatism depending on the framing of the status threat, participants’ partisanship, and the strength of their identification with the group under threat.

Authors

• Brianna Alesia Smith, United States Naval Academy

• Diogo Augusto Ferrari, University of California-Riverside