Original paper
The policy implications of feeling relatively low versus high status within a privileged group.
Volume: 150, Issue: 11, Pages: 2346 - 2361
Published: Apr 22, 2021
Abstract
Research suggests that White Americans oppose welfare due to between-group processes: Many White Americans envision welfare recipients to be lazy, undeserving, and Black, and these perceptions predict reduced welfare support. In the present work, we consider the role of within-group processes that result from complementary beliefs that White people, as a group, are wealthy. Using a nationally representative sample of White and Black Americans...
Paper Details
Title
The policy implications of feeling relatively low versus high status within a privileged group.
Published Date
Apr 22, 2021
Volume
150
Issue
11
Pages
2346 - 2361