POL 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Identity Theory, Social Status, Group Conflict
5 Feb 2019
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People who perceive the world as a zero-sum game are often more threat sensitive. State-level factors: contextual factors can make us all feel more or less threatened ex. After a terrorist attack, during conflict/war, election time, changes to social. Contextual changes can lead to shifts from our baseline political attitudes (usually more. Threats can lead to increase in sports for adherence to group norms, punishment for. Oftentimes the threat is not realistic/is overblown but if it is perceived a threat then it is. Threats to culture/norms/values are often more consequential than economic threats. Trait-level factors: some people are more threat-sensitive than others ex. Physiological arousal studies, tend to be more conservative with policies. Threat sensitivity predicts social conservatism, hostility to out-groups, authoritarianism, Status threat as a path to political action and the endorsement of specific ideologies. Threat theories and politics: overview etc. environments conservative) norm-violators, and support for traditional hierarchies.
