Majority Group Members' Negative Reactions to Future Demographic Shifts Depend on the Perceived Legitimacy of Their Status: Findings from the United States and Portugal

Majority Group Members' Negative Reactions to Future Demographic Shifts Depend on the Perceived Legitimacy of Their Status: Findings from the United States and Portugal

Using concepts from social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), we examined whether racial/ethnic majority group members' reactions to future demographic shifts is a function of the degree to which they perceive their ingroup's higher-status in society to be legitimate. In two studie...

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Main Authors: H. Robert Outten, Timothy Lee, Rui Costa-Lopes, Michael T. Schmitt, Jorge Vala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
demographic shifts
perceived legitimacy of status
majority
minority
United States
Portugal
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00079/full

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