Status Threat: The Core of Reactionary Politics

• In Event: Political Psychology of Status Threat

Brief Overview

We develop and test a general measure of status threat. How does it fare in predicting a wide range of political attitudes once other symbolic predispositions, ones generally associated with group-based intolerance (e.g., racism,) are considered?

Authors

• Howard Lavine, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Christopher Sebastian Parker, University of California-Santa Barbara