Ethnic discrimination in neighborhood ingroup-outgroup encounters: Reducing threat-perception and increasing fairness as possible solutions

Research on discriminating behavior against ethnic minorities in everyday situations is still a rather under-researched field, since most prior research discrimination focuses housing markets, job criminal justice, institutions or discourses. This article contributes toward filling the research-gap by bringing together from sociology and social-psychology, including threat competition theories integration research, social identity theory, particularism-universalism theory experimental findings fairness norms. It conceptually advances field combining them into an integrated interdisciplinary approach that can examine situations. studies dynamics of ingroup-outgroup relationships, norms regard to negative others (e.g., neighbor). In particular, it focusses under which more likely outgroup-person than ingroup-person (i.e., behavior). To scrutinize expectations derived within this framework, factorial survey experiment was designed, implemented analyzed (by means multilevel mixed-effects linear regressions average marginal effects). The presents hypothetical scenario between two neighbors order measure effects behavior. While no significant outgroup-effect be found general analysis main effects, in-depth analyses show interplay situational cues: Outgroup-discriminating becomes significantly when “actor” has low and/or threat-level situation low. These results foreground importance for understanding conditions takes place situations—and deriving measures reduce discrimination.