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Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias
Are male and female immigrants viewed similarly or differently? Consistent with an evolutionary threat management perspective, we suggest that the answer to this question depends upon what types of threats immigrant groups are perceived as posing. In the present study, we compared attitudes toward m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33456313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219882489 |
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author | Ji, Tingting Tybur, Joshua M. van Vugt, Mark |
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description | Are male and female immigrants viewed similarly or differently? Consistent with an evolutionary threat management perspective, we suggest that the answer to this question depends upon what types of threats immigrant groups are perceived as posing. In the present study, we compared attitudes toward male and female immigrants from either a violent ecology (e.g., Syria) or a pathogen-rich ecology (e.g., Liberia). We hypothesized that people would have more negative attitudes toward male than female immigrants from a violent ecology, but that attitudes would be similar toward male and female immigrants from a pathogen-rich ecology. Internal meta-analyses of three studies (total N = 1,488) were in line with our hypothesis. They showed that attitudes toward male immigrants from a violent ecology were more negative than attitudes toward female immigrants from the same ecology. In contrast, attitudes toward male and female immigrants were similar when those immigrants came from a pathogen-rich ecology. Our findings are consistent with an evolutionary threat management perspective on outgroup prejudice and are aligned with the male warrior hypothesis: Attitudes toward male versus female outgroup members vary with the potential threats these outgroups pose. |
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spelling | pubmed-77802712021-01-13 Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias Ji, Tingting Tybur, Joshua M. van Vugt, Mark Group Process Intergroup Relat Articles Are male and female immigrants viewed similarly or differently? Consistent with an evolutionary threat management perspective, we suggest that the answer to this question depends upon what types of threats immigrant groups are perceived as posing. In the present study, we compared attitudes toward male and female immigrants from either a violent ecology (e.g., Syria) or a pathogen-rich ecology (e.g., Liberia). We hypothesized that people would have more negative attitudes toward male than female immigrants from a violent ecology, but that attitudes would be similar toward male and female immigrants from a pathogen-rich ecology. Internal meta-analyses of three studies (total N = 1,488) were in line with our hypothesis. They showed that attitudes toward male immigrants from a violent ecology were more negative than attitudes toward female immigrants from the same ecology. In contrast, attitudes toward male and female immigrants were similar when those immigrants came from a pathogen-rich ecology. Our findings are consistent with an evolutionary threat management perspective on outgroup prejudice and are aligned with the male warrior hypothesis: Attitudes toward male versus female outgroup members vary with the potential threats these outgroups pose. SAGE Publications 2019-11-25 2021-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7780271/ /pubmed/33456313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219882489 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Ji, Tingting Tybur, Joshua M. van Vugt, Mark Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title | Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title_full | Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title_fullStr | Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title_full_unstemmed | Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title_short | Gendered outgroup prejudice: An evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
title_sort | gendered outgroup prejudice: an evolutionary threat management perspective on anti-immigrant bias |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33456313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219882489 |
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