Prejudice and Intergroup Relations - Personality approaches to prejudice

3 important questions on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations - Personality approaches to prejudice

What three things is the authoritarian personality characterized by - a personality syndrome theorized to be resulting from overly strict parenting - aside from it being associated with prejudice towards minority groups and susceptibility to fascism?

  1. Simplistic thinking
  2. Rigid regard for social conventions
  3. Submission to authority figures

What is the social dominance orientation, and what does it capture - according to the social dominance theory that proposes that humans have a universal tendency to form group-based hierarchies which is reflected in most societies' hierachical organizations maintained through individual and institutional discrimination (EX: ethnicity, class, gender)?

An individual difference variable that captures a desire for hierarchichal group relations

Right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation are both ... and both explain substantial amounts of ... in prejudice

Individual difference variables that explain variation in prejudice

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