Affiliation:
1. Department of Psychology Carleton University Ottawa Ontario Canada
Abstract
AbstractWe tested the hypothesis that perceived existential threat stemming from COVID‐19 elicits anxious arousal, which can manifest in prejudice toward the perceived source of the threat (Chinese people). Americans (n = 474) were randomly assigned to a condition in which COVID‐19 was framed as a high existential threat to the United States or to a condition in which COVID‐19 was framed as a low existential threat to the United States. They then completed self‐report measures of anxious arousal as well as subtle and blatant prejudice towards Chinese people. As expected, participants in the high threat (vs. low threat) condition reported greater anxious arousal which, in turn, predicted greater subtle and blatant prejudice. The high threat (vs. low threat) condition also indirectly predicted greater subtle and blatant prejudice via greater anxious arousal. Results advance knowledge on the reactions people had to perceiving COVID‐19 as an existential threat during the early phase of the pandemic.
Funder
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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