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- Title
Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and prejudice against threatening and competitive ethnic groups.
- Authors
Cohrs, J. Christopher; Asbrock, Frank
- Abstract
This research rests on the assumption that individual differences approaches to prejudice benefit from an integration of intergroup factors. Following Duckitt (2001), we assumed that two prominent individual differences variables, right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), would differentially predict majority members' levels of ethnic prejudice depending on specific factors of the intergroup context: RWA as an index of motivational concerns about social cohesion, stability and security should drive prejudice against outgroups perceived as socially threatening, and SDO as an index of concerns about ingroup superiority and dominance should predict prejudice against outgroups perceived as potential competitors for power-status. Across two studies (Ns = 82, 176), using between-participants and within-participants experimental designs, the effects of RWA on prejudice were particularly powerful when the outgroup was manipulated to be socially threatening, but the effects of SDO on prejudice appeared not to increase when the outgroup was manipulated to be competitive. In Study 2, presenting the outgroup as having low status also increased the effect of RWA, but not the effect of SDO. These results support the differential prediction assumption for RWA, but not for SDO. Implications for the conceptualisation of RWA and SDO are discussed. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
SOCIAL psychology; AUTHORITARIAN personality; ETHNIC groups; SOCIAL interaction; DIFFERENTIAL psychology; INTERGROUP relations; SOCIAL cohesion; SOCIAL structure; INTERPERSONAL relations; PREJUDICES
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 2, p270
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejsp.545