Three experiments test whether considering a stereotypically lower status group’s social gains leads White Americans to expect political solidarity among stereotypically higher status groups. Information about Hispanic population growth (vs. current demographics) led White Americans to expect relative losses to both White and Asian Americans’ statuses (Study 1). Making growing Hispanic political power (vs. control information) salient led Whites to report that Asian Americans and White Americans would support one another’s policy positions more (Studies 2 and 3). Importantly, presenting information that Asian Americans oppose (vs. support) the racial status quo reduced Whites’ perceptions of a White–Asian status-based coalition in response to growing Hispanic power (Study 3), suggesting that disrupting beliefs that Asian Americans will maintain the racial hierarchy reduces expectations of a White–Asian coalition in response to Hispanic growth. This work highlights the utility of moving beyond dyadic conceptualizations of intergroup relations to understand how one group’s gains can shift coalitional expectations in diverse social hierarchies.

三个实验测试了考虑到一个刻板的低地位群体的社会收益是否会导致美国白人期望在刻板的高地位群体之间建立政治团结。关于西班牙裔人口增长（与当前人口统计数据相比）的信息导致美国白人预计白人和亚裔美国人的地位会相对下降（研究 1）。使日益增长的西班牙裔政治权力（相对于控制信息）变得突出，导致白人报告说亚裔美国人和美国白人会更多地支持彼此的政策立场（研究 2 和 3）。重要的是，提供亚裔美国人反对（与支持）种族现状的信息降低了白人对基于白人-亚裔身份联盟的看法，以应对不断增长的西班牙裔权力（研究 3），这表明破坏亚裔美国人将维持种族等级的信念会降低对白人-亚裔联盟应对西班牙裔人口增长的期望。这项工作强调了超越群体间关系的二元概念化以了解一个群体的收益如何改变不同社会等级中的联盟期望的效用。