2017/06/15 by Maureen A. Craig, Jennifer A. Richeson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Ethnic group #Ideology #Diversity (politics) #Population #Psychology #Salient #Social psychology #Social dominance orientation #Politics #Race (biology) #Demography #Political science #Sociology #Gender studies #Authoritarianism #Democracy
paper · doi:10.1177/1948550617712029
openalex publication_date 2017/06/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/05
The racial/ethnic diversity of the United States is increasing, yet recent social psychological research has focused primarily on White Americans’ reactions to this demographic trend. The present research experimentally examines how members of different racial minority groups perceive increasing diversity, driven by Hispanic population growth, focusing on downstream consequences for political ideology and policy preferences. Four studies reveal that making Hispanic population growth salient leads non-Hispanic racial minorities to identify as more conservative and support more conservative policy positions, compared with control information. The policy preferences of Hispanics, however, were not affected by exposure to information about their in-group’s growth. Considered in tandem with previous research, the present studies suggest that Hispanic population growth may motivate greater support for conservative ideology among members of both racial majority and minority groups.