New in HCR: Wicke et al. (2026) find that targeted universalist messaging about Child Tax Credit expansion did not reduce policy support among White Americans, but it increased anger, responsibility stereotyping, and lowered perceived government responsibility.
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Abstract. Scholars have worried that messages about racial equity can produce backlash from White respondents. Drawing upon psychological reactance theory,