Psychoeconomic Approaches to the Study of Hostile Attitudes Toward Minority Groups: A Study Among Israeli Jews

We aspired to reexamine the well-established assumption according to which low socioeconomic status, as a comprehensive concept, leads to prejudice and hostile attitudes toward minorities. Hence, we focused on examining the differential effect of each component of SES on one of the most important behavioral aspects of hostile attitudes-social distance. Just as importantly, we examined the assumption according to which threat perception mediates the influence of SES factors on those attitudes. Copyright (c) 2007 Southwestern Social Science Association.