Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA
2. Department of Psychology Princeton University Princeton New Jersey USA
3. Marketing Department Kellogg School of Management Evanston Illinois USA
Abstract
AbstractWe examined whether perceptions of the health and economic threats posed by COVID‐19 predict different patterns of intergroup attitudes, using data gathered during the early phase of the pandemic. Using data from 1339 geographically and politically diverse White US residents, we show that subjective economic threat predicted general anti‐outgroup attitudes, while subjective health threat predicted negative attitudes towards both Asian and Latinx (“stereotypically foreign”) outgroups but not towards other outgroups. Among 303 geographically and politically diverse Black US residents, the pattern instead suggested that threat (regardless of type) was associated with reduced evaluative differentiation between racial ingroups and outgroups.
Funder
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University