Wilkins, Clara LMiller, Chad Aaron2025-08-012025-08-012025Miller_washington_0250E_28529.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1773/53746Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2025Three papers employing experimental methods examine causes and consequences of high-status groups’ prejudices. The first paper demonstrates that when U.S. White Christians perceive bias against their religious group, they perceive an adversarial relationship with gay and transgender people, such that they perceive LGBT rights as coming at a cost to Christians and perceive gay and transgender people more negatively. The second paper examines consequences of anti-Black prejudice and demonstrates that White people’s greater anti-Black bias predicted lesser concern about COVID-19 and was a better predictor than conservatism. Moreover, we found that White people did not significantly differ in COVID-19 concern based on whether COVID-19 was described as severe in a control condition or severe and especially so for people of color in an experimental condition. Finally, the third paper demonstrates that cisgender, heterosexual people dislike gender nonconforming people more than conforming people, and that women face harsher penalties for gender nonconformity.application/pdfen-USCC BYSocial psychologyPsychologyPsychologyThesis