The Effects of Stability of Inequality and Ingroup Identification on the Principle-Implementation Gap among Advantaged Groups.

This is an anonymous online experimental study among White citizens in the UK (advantaged group), that will be conducted via Prolific as a follow-up study of the OSF pre-registered study project entitled: “The Fragility of Privilege: How Perceived (In)stability of Inequality and the Demands of the Disadvantaged Influence Support Among the Advantaged” (https://osf.io/uyv3k/overview?view_only=fa79686f271d447ba713b815bb7b221b).

In this study we examine how stability of racial health care inequality (stable vs. unstable) affects intentions to support measures to address these inequalities. Our main framework is the Principle-Implementation Gap (PI Gap) referring to the discrepancy between abstract support for equality and resistance to concrete measures aimed at achieving it among the privileged, (Bobo, 1988; Jackman & Crane, 1986; Dixon et al., 2017). We also take into account the role of Ingroup Identification as a moderator based on exploratory findings from our a first pre-registered study and results from previous research showing that reactions from advantaged groups to inequality depend on the interplay between contextual features around inequality and ingroup identification (Teixeira et al.; 2023, Teixeira et al., 2022). Specifically, we aim to explore the impact of stability of inequality (Teixeira et al., 2023;Knight & Mehta, 2017; Scheepers et al., 2015) and ingroup identification on the width of the PI Gap among advantaged group members

Participants will be white UK citizens from Prolific Academic. We will manipulate stability of racial inequality in the UK between-participants. Before the manipulation we will measure ingroup identification. Our main dependent variables will be various scales operationalizing more or less abstract support for inequality reduction. These measures are aimed at improving measurement of the P-I gap, due to shortcomings (linked to invariance and ceiling effects) observed in our first study. We will also measure some other concepts in an exploratory manner (e.g. threats, backlash etc.)