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POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 453-477Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2010.00765.x
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Authoritarianism; Social dominance; Empathy; Moral reasoning; Prejudice
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The search for the personological roots of generalized prejudice (or ethnocentrism) began with the authoritarian personality, but in recent years, the twin constructs of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation have been widely treated as the dual processes that lead to generalized prejudice. However, studies conducted for this article show that other constructs, notably empathy and principled moral reasoning, contribute important additional variance. Whereas authoritarianism and social dominance positively predict generalized prejudice, empathy and principled moral reasoning are related negatively to it. For the final study, a structural model of these relationships was tested. To fully understand individual differences in the propensity for generalized prejudice, it is necessary to move beyond the dual processes union of authoritarianism and social dominance.
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